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tenter hook

tenter hook is the alternative form of tenterhook.

Meaning of tenterhook

Noun

tenterhook (plural tenterhooks)

  1. One of a series of hooks used to stretch cloth on a tenter.

Forms of tenter hook

pluraltenter hooks

Questions about tenter hook

What is tenter hook the alternative form of?
Tenter hook is the alternative form of tenterhook.

Words near tenter hook in the dictionary

  1. tenter
  2. tenter field
  3. tenter fields
  4. tenter frame
  5. tenter frames
  6. tenter hook
  7. tenter hooks
  8. tenter loft
  9. tenter lofts
  10. tenter post
  11. tenter posts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tenter hook (page history and authors); tenterhook (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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