Tenterhook
≈ 1 min read
Names in other languages
No names in other languages are held for this entry yet.
Article bodies are English and are not machine-translated. A name in another language is not a translation of the article.
, Northumberland Tenterhooks or tenter hooks are hooked nails used with a device known as a tenter, a wooden frame, used since at least the 14th century in the process of making woolen cloth, over which wet cloth would be stretched to prevent shrinkage as it dries, but now superseded by the stenter in the textile manufacturing industry. The phrase "on tenterhooks" has become a metaphor for nervous anticipation.
, Northumberland]] Tenterhooks or tenter hooks are hooked nails used with a device known as a tenter, a wooden frame, used since at least the 14th century in the process of making woolen cloth, over which wet cloth would be stretched to prevent shrinkage as it dries, but now superseded by the stenter in the textile manufacturing industry. The phrase "on tenterhooks" has become a metaphor for nervous anticipation. ==References==
Text derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376142511 under CC BY-SA 4.0; modifications have been made.