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POS
 : 
Noun, Verb (transitive)
TANDA HUBUNG
 : 
ten=ter
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun has 1 sense

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CIDE DICTIONARY
, n. 
  •  One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A kind of governor.  [1913 Webster]
, n. Array
     A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square.  [1913 Webster]
Tenter ground, a place where tenters are erected. -- Tenter-hook, a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth on a tenter. -- To be on the tenters, To be on the tenter-hooks or To be on tenterhooks, to be on the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness, or suspense. Hudibras.
, v. i. 
     To admit extension.  [1913 Webster]
, v. t. 
     To hang or stretch on, or as on, tenters.  [1913 Webster]
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
, n.
1 a machine for stretching cloth to dry in shape.
2 = TENTERHOOK.

, n. Brit.
1 a person in charge of something, esp. of machinery in a factory.
2 a workman's unskilled assistant.

Etymology
tent (now Sc.) pay attention, perh. f. tent attention f. INTENT or obs. attent (as ATTEND)
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