tenter

noun

1. A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
2. One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.
3. A kind of governor, or regulating device.

verb

1. (transitive)To stretch cloth on such a framework.
2. (intransitive)To admit extension; to be stretchable.

   “Woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.”