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Tenterhooks or tenter hooks are hooked nails used with a device known as a tenter, a wooden frame, used since at least the 14th century in the process of making woolen cloth, over which wet cloth would be stretched to prevent shrinkage as it dries, but now superseded by the stenter in the textile manufacturing industry.
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| Tenterhook | related to Cloth-making | After | 0.60 | section |
| Tenterhook | related to Cloth-making | Scotland | 0.60 | section |
| Tenterhook | related to Cloth-making | Scots | 0.60 | section |
| Tenterhook | related to Cloth-making | To | 0.60 | section |
| Tenterhook | related to Cloth-making | The | 0.60 | section |
| Tenterhook | related to Cloth-making | Historically | 0.60 | section |
| Tenterhook | related to Cloth-making | United Kingdom | 0.60 | section |
| Tenterhook | related to Cloth-making | Spitalfields | 0.60 | section |
| Tenterhook | related to Cloth-making | London | 0.60 | section |
| Tenterhook | related to Cloth-making | Tenterfield House | 0.60 | section |
| Tenterhook | related to Cloth-making | Haddington | 0.60 | section |
| Tenterhook | related to Cloth-making | East Lothian | 0.60 | section |
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