tenter
/ten-ter/US // ˈtɛn tər //UK // (ˈtɛntə) //
捣蛋鬼,检验员,检验者,检验检疫局
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a framework on which cloth in the process of manufacture is stretched so it may set or dry evenly.
- : Obsolete. a tenterhook.
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to stretch on a tenter or tenters.
v.无主动词 verb
- 1
- : to be capable of being tentered.
Examples
Too near for reflection; too far for intervention: on tenter hooks, in fact; a sort of mental crucifixion.
She was not going to seem to give it him yet; a man on the tenter-hooks was a man in the perfectly right place.
Some were hung by the feet to tenter-hooks driven into poles; and in that wretched posture left till they perished.
Meanwhile the guns were unlimbered, and their anxious crew (the battery had never been in action before) were on tenter-hooks.
When the time of his return came nigh, Aunt Judith and the household were on the tenter-hooks of impatience.
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