Obs. [f. TENTER sb.1 + YARD sb.] A yard or enclosure with tenters for stretching cloth, etc.
1481–90. Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.), 303. He to have his howse that he dwellyth in, and the teynter yerd.
1545. Act 37 Hen. VIII., c. 12 § 10. Any mansion house with a … tymber yarde, teyntree yarde, or gardeyne bilonginge to the same.
1598. Stow, Surv. (1908), I. 127. The fields on either side be turned into Garden plottes, teynter yardes, Bowling Allyes, and such like.
