ppl. a. [f. TENTER v. and sb.1 + -ED.]
1. Stretched on or as on a tenter; racked.
1652. Benlowes, Theoph., VII. xxxvii. As my tenter’d Minde its Spirits still Strains forth.
1835. Ure, Philos. Manuf., 203. In order to dry the tentered cloth within it.
2. Stuck or studded with tenter-hooks.
1768. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 222. Another person … might still expect uneasiness in the tentered cask, nevertheless, might choose it as the lesser evil.
1795. Southey, Joan of Arc, IV. 111. How Maximin,… In such deep fury bade the tenter’d wheel Rend her life piecemeal.
