Tenter vs Tenner - What's the difference?
tenter | tenner |
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 nouns the difference between tenter and tenner
is that tenter is a framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried while tenner is a monetary note bill whose face value is ten basic units of currency. Originally, it referred to 10 shilling (half pound) notes.As a verb tenter
is to stretch cloth on such a framework.tenter
English
(wikipedia tenter)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Woollen cloth will tenter , linen scarcely.
