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tenterhooks

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Definitions of tenterhooks in various dictionaries:

noun - one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter

TENTERHOOKS - For the album by musician Chris Mars, see Tenterhooks (album).Tenterhooks are hooks in a device called a tenter. Tenters were originally large wooden...

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Possible Crossword Clues
Time to record catches, upon which one gets nervous
Nails to fasten cloth will be OK mixed with ten others
On which one is nervous about the stroke? No
Time to list clips -- nervous Nerys is on these?

Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles
Oct 24 2018 The Telegraph - Toughie
Jul 2 2015 The Telegraph - Toughie
Aug 29 2009 The Times - Cryptic
Jul 3 2003 The Telegraph - Cryptic

Possible Jeopardy Clues
If you're "on" these hooks, you're in a state of suspense

Tenterhooks description
For the album by musician Chris Mars, see Tenterhooks (album).Tenterhooks are hooks in a device called a tenter. Tenters were originally large wooden frames which were used as far back as the 14th century in the process of making woollen cloth. After a piece of cloth was woven, it still contained oil and dirt from the fleece. A craftsman called a fuller (also called a tucker or wa[u]lker) cleaned the woollen cloth in a fulling mill, and then had to dry it carefully or the woollen fabric would shrink. To prevent this shrinkage, the fuller would place the wet cloth on a tenter, and leave it to dry outdoors. The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter (from Latin tendere, meaning 'to stretch') using tenterhooks (hooked nails driven through the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges (selvedges) were fixed, so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size. In some manufacturing areas, entire tenter-fields, larger open spaces full of te

Tenterhooks description

For the album by musician Chris Mars, see Tenterhooks (album).Tenterhooks are hooks in a device called a tenter. Tenters were originally large wooden frames which were used as far back as the 14th century in the process of making woollen cloth. After a piece of cloth was woven, it still contained oil and dirt from the fleece. A craftsman called a fuller (also called a tucker or wa[u]lker) cleaned the woollen cloth in a fulling mill, and then had to dry it carefully or the woollen fabric would shrink. To prevent this shrinkage, the fuller would place the wet cloth on a tenter, and leave it to dry outdoors. The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter (from Latin tendere, meaning 'to stretch') using tenterhooks (hooked nails driven through the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges (selvedges) were fixed, so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size. In some manufacturing areas, entire tenter-fields, larger open spaces full of te

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