Word.ws English Dictionary

tenterloft

tenterloft noun: a loft used to dry cloth on a tenter.

tenterloft: a loft used to dry cloth on a tenter
Image: Chris Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

tenterloft (plural tenterlofts)

  1. A loft used to dry cloth on a tenter.

Forms of tenterloft

pluraltenterlofts
alternative formtenter-loft
alternative formtenter loft

Origin of tenterloft

From tenter + loft.

Questions about tenterloft

What does tenterloft mean?
Tenterloft means a loft used to dry cloth on a tenter.
What part of speech is tenterloft?
Tenterloft is a noun.
What is the plural of tenterloft?
The plural of tenterloft is tenterlofts.

Words near tenterloft in the dictionary

  1. tenterground
  2. tentergrounds
  3. tenterhook
  4. tenterhooks
  5. tentering
  6. tenterloft
  7. tenterlofts
  8. tenterpost
  9. tenterposts
  10. tenters
  11. tentet

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tenterloft (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tenterloft.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tenterloft. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.