Obs. [f. TENTER sb.1 + GROUND sb.] Ground occupied by tenters for stretching cloth, etc.
1714. Lond. Gaz., No. 5266/8. In the Tentor Ground by the Dog house in Bunhill fields.
1769. Gray, Lett. to Wharton, 18 Oct. I entered Kendal almost in the dark, and could distinguish only a shadow of the castle on a hill, and tenter-grounds spread far and wide round the town.
1887. Lecky, Eng. in 18th C., VI. xxiii. 247. To steal woollen cloth from a tenter-ground.
