1. (n.) One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.

2. (n.) A kind of governor.

3. (n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.

4. (v. i.) To admit extension.

5. (v. t.) To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.