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Tenter  v. i.  (past & past part. tentered; pres. part. tentering)  To admit extension. "Woolen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tenter" Quotes from Famous Books



... two or three streets outside Cripplegate. Moorfields are really fields. There are windmills, gardens with summer-houses, pasture-fields with cows, a large 'dogge house,' and fields where women appear to be laying out clothes to dry. Really, they are tenter fields, i.e. fields provided with 'tenters,' or pegs, by means of which cloth could be stretched. North of Moorfields is indicated rising ground with woods. There can be no doubt at all as to the course of the wall, which is here marked with the greatest clearness. On ...
— The History of London • Walter Besant

... of dreamless sleep? Who bricks would make, sans straw or clay? "Call spirits from the vasty deep," Or weave a lofty, living lay? Let him be heartened, jocund, gay, Nor hopeless writhe on tenter-hooks,— They meet no barriers who essay The easy ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) • Various

... on the other side of the excited youth, "don't keep us on tenter-hooks. Surely nothing ...
— Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island - The Old Hunter's Treasure Box • Alice Emerson

... drives the owner of the plough to desperation, and his principles, if he have any, may be preserved; while the losses or risks of an investment involving more than the merchant really owns, suspend him for a time on the tenter-hooks of commercial doubt. The man thus placed must have more than a common share of integrity, to reason right when interest tempts him to ...
— New York • James Fenimore Cooper

... Prestwitch, this and much more did, His friendship did command and freely gave All before writ, and more than I durst crave. But leaving him a little, I must tell, How men of Manchester did use me well, Their loves they on the tenter-hooks did rack, Roast, boiled, baked, too—too—much, white, claret, sack, Nothing they thought too heavy or too hot, Can followed can, and pot succeeded pot, That what they could do, all they thought ...
— The Pennyles Pilgrimage - Or The Money-lesse Perambulation of John Taylor • John Taylor

... itself first in the appetite, in the general condition, and above all the face would have betrayed cancer if he had had it. The most likely thing is that L. N. is in good health (apart from the gall-stones), and will live another twenty years. His illness frightened me, and kept me on tenter-hooks. I am afraid of Tolstoy's death. If he were to die there would be a big empty place in my life. To begin with, because I have never loved any man as much as him. I am not a believing man, but of all beliefs I consider his the nearest and most akin to me. Secondly, while Tolstoy ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov

... you must have been on tenter-hooks all this time, for, of course, you saw there was a crisis, and you behaved much better than I should have done at your age; but it was only a fait accompli this very day, and we ...
— Beechcroft at Rockstone • Charlotte M. Yonge

... ont pense a la possibilite de faire revivre l'ancien ordre des Chevaliers du St. Sepulcre pour lui confier la garde de ce sanctuaire. Il y a eu meme quelques individus qui ont exprime le v[oe]u d'appeler dans la ville de Salomon les Juifs disperses dans differents pays pour tenter la conversion sociale et religieuse de ce peuple d'antique ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf

... Pascal!" I cried, "even you could detect no casuistry here. And have you no scruple, young man, in keeping an old gentleman on the tenter-hooks of expectation whilst you are splitting hairs? Go on, like a good fellow, I was never so interested in my life. The idea of ...
— My New Curate • P.A. Sheehan

... exhibit his own incorruptibility, he added that there were among them, of his own certain knowledge, at least twenty who would have paid a ransom of thirty thousand or even forty thousand crowns, "qui estoit assez," he significantly adds, "pour tenter ung homme corruptible." Correspondance du roi Charles IX. et du Sieur ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird

... arrival the beautiful Miss Mowbray had held all eyes; and even when he appeared, she was not forgotten. Every one was on tenter hooks to see how she would be greeted by the ...
— The Princess Virginia • C. N. Williamson

... le tenter. Ce n'est pas qu'il n'y ait du risque:[66] elle a du discernement, Marquis, Vous supposez qu'elle vous refusera; je n'en sais rien: vous n'etes pas homme ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

... receive her answer she took a lot of persuading, and declared that she could not make up her mind to agree to his proposal, though she was all the time on tenter-hooks lest he should not consent to give the fifty crowns: but at last, when he grew urgent, she told him what she ...
— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) - Boule de Suif and Other Stories • Guy de Maupassant

... in, McMurrough," Asgill said, who on his side was on tenter-hooks lest Flavia and Morty O'Beirne should arrive from the Tower. "You'll like to get rid of your boots before supper, Major?" he went on. "Bid Darby send the Major's man to him, McMurrough; or, better, I'll be going to the stables myself and ...
— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman

... srieusement du ct de la plaine, comme disposs s'en retourner par o ils taient venus, quand leur chef, convaincu que les menaces ne produiraient aucune impression sur le fils de Falcone, voulut faire un dernier effort et tenter le pouvoir des ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen

... think it must 'a' ben a kind of disease with him. He really didn't mean no harm, mebbe, but he couldn't no more help lettin' out anythin' he knowed, or thought he knowed, than a settin' hen c'n help settin'. He kep' me on tenter-hooks the ...
— David Harum - A Story of American Life • Edward Noyes Westcott



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