tenter
- n a framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth
- But to attempt a general rate revision now would be not only to keep Business on tenter-hooks but to obstruct many other pressing national affairs.
- Since the Government was only impliedly bound to carry out the Samuel memorandum, Labor officials were on the prickliest of tenter-hooks until Premier Baldwin demonstrated that .
- They will be able to wriggle upon the same tenter-hooks that pricked Loeb and Leopold, to share the sarcastic denials of Landru, the French bluebeard; most intensely of all .