(ten′tər) noun
1. A frame or machine for stretching cloth to prevent shrinkage while drying.
2. Obs. A tenterhook.
—v.t. To stretch on or as on a tenter.
—v.i. To be or admit of being stretched thus. [<L tentus extended. See TENT¹.]

(ten′tər) noun Brit.
One who especially attends to anything; particularly, one who attends to machinery in a factory, [<TENT³]