Definition of tenters:
(n) :
A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
(v) :
(transitive) To stretch cloth on such a framework.
(n) :
One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
(v) :
(intransitive) To admit extension; to be stretchable.
(n) :
(engineering) A kind of governor, or regulating device.