To prevent this shrinkage, the wet cloth would be placed on a large wooden frame, a "tenter", and left to dry outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pam Holland Designs and Productions] Reference

He had lived on tenter-hooks at first, in Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bill-Toppers] Reference

OK, alors je vais de nouveau tenter l'installation!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Upgrade, Shmupgrade — Climb to the Stars] Reference

Why not book elsewhere rather than “tenter la diable”.    From Wordnik.com.  [holiday] Reference

J'vais tenter de rester zen mais avec une mere comme la mienne.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

When I was up for re-election, I can remember being on tenter-hooks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

Lady Louisa might well be on tenter-hooks to impress Mr. Brummell favourably.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Reader, Second Series] Reference

I made no reply, but left him upon the tenter-hooks of impatient uncertainty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference

CoComment est une des entreprises du web2 que j'admire, je me laisserai bien tenter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Job Offer: Chief Architect, coComment — Climb to the Stars] Reference

If Coleman sees that his ship is sinking (like it is now), il va tenter son va-tout.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnesota Supremes Go Partly With Coleman On Absentee Ballot Suit, With Major Strings Attached] Reference

Don't stand there like a tailor's dummy, keeping me on tenter-hooks, -- move yourself!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

We're still standing here on tenter hooks trying to figure out what's going to happen.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2008] Reference

Alors, qui va investir dans le contenu, ne fut-ce que pour tenter de reproduire ce hit?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference

Je vais tenter de l'expliquer en s'appuyant sur la technique utilisée pour cette page.    From Wordnik.com.  [syndication formats? - Anil Dash] Reference

I always felt on tenter hooks in her presence, from the very first date of our acquaintanceship.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 1] Reference

I am on tenter-hooks, waiting for the service desk to ring me back and utter some soothing words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The housing conundrum] Reference

And the fear lest he should do something rash or let a lucky chance slip kept him on tenter-hooks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australia Felix] Reference

"He's kept me on tenter-hooks for ten months, and there ought to be some punishment for the crime.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hiram the Young Farmer] Reference

When the time of his return came nigh, Aunt Judith and the household were on the tenter-hooks of impatience.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference

Comme je suis un peu loin de Lausanne…je te propose de tenter d'initier la même journée à Bordeaux France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Une journée pour bosser sur nos sites “pro”: Website Pro Day — Climb to the Stars] Reference

C'est lorsque j'ai découvert qu'il me faudrait plusieurs vies pour tenter d'épuiser les possibilités de l'outil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference

Some were hung by the feet to tenter-hooks driven into poles; and in that wretched posture left till they perished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

They are their own worst enemies; the ‘big tent’ is only so big, before you turn on your fellow ‘big tenter’.    From Wordnik.com.  [Casey Luskin: the new Wendell Bird? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

When we get the sledge going we are on tenter – hooks lest it stop again on the next soft slope, and this often occurs.    From Wordnik.com.  [South: the story of Shackleton’s last expedition 1914–1917] Reference

And have you no scruple, young man, in keeping an old gentleman on the tenter-hooks of expectation whilst you are splitting hairs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

Anyone who heard Joanna Newsom's last album, The Milk-Eyed Mender will have sat on tenter-hooks for the new album, and here it is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joanna Newsom, Ys (Drag City DC303, 2006)] Reference

Le lecteur est ainsi invité à prendre l'enquête à son propre compte pour tenter de démêler les fils tressés par la seule passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference

Now, Solon, don't you keep me here on tenter-hooks!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tiverton Tales] Reference

His illness frightened me, and kept me on tenter-hooks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of Anton Chekhov] Reference

Asif Ali Zardari, devraient tenter d'écarter le général Musharraf.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

She was on tenter-hooks, thinking to hear the bell ring at any moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dieux ont soif. English] Reference

The tenter grounds were for stretching new cloth, I believe, rather than laundry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pepys' Diary] Reference

The night before, a male tenter got attacked by large biting ants who swarmed him and bit!.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

I'm on tenter hooks to know whether I shall have a Reprimand, or a bad conduct mark in my report.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Young Girl's Diary] Reference