Tenter vs Teeter - What's the difference?
tenter | teeter |
A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
(engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device.
To stretch cloth on such a framework.
To admit extension; to be stretchable.
* Francis Bacon
As verbs the difference between tenter and teeter
is that tenter is to stretch cloth on such a framework while teeter is to tilt back and forth on an edge.As a noun tenter
is a framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.tenter
English
(wikipedia tenter)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Woollen cloth will tenter , linen scarcely.
