What is the meaning of Tenter?

A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.

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

A kind of governor, or regulating device.

To stretch cloth on such a framework.

To admit extension; to be stretchable.

to attempt

to tempt

to be desirable or interesting to; to be something one feels like doing

first-person singular present passive subjunctive of tentō

to try

Source: wiktionary.org