tenterhook

A noun referring to one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter, a frame for stretching and drying fabric.

• 🇨🇳名词，指用于将织物固定在拉幅机（绷布架）上使其拉伸并晾干的钩子。

1. Hook for stretching cloth C2 formal british

   One of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter (a frame for stretching and drying fabric).

   • The weaver carefully placed the fabric on the tenterhooks.
   • Tenterhooks were essential in the traditional cloth-making process.
   • The old mill still has rows of tenterhooks for drying wool.

   🇨🇳拉幅钩

• tenterhooks plural form
• tenterhooks' possessive plural form
• tenterhook's possessive singular form