adjective
- stretched on a frame called a tenter to dry and shape cloth
Usage: textile manufacturing; archaic
Examples
- The newly woven cloth was tentered in the factory yard.
- Tentered fabric dried evenly in the sun.
- The mill workers carefully positioned the tentered material.
- Historical textile mills used tentered processes to finish cloth.
- The tentered wool maintained its proper dimensions.
- Workers inspected the tentered fabric for defects.