Definition of tenter

• n. - One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
• n. - A kind of governor.
• n. - A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.
• v. i. - To admit extension.
• v. t. - To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.