tenter

kuivausteline 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.
puhekieltä A kind of governor, or regulating device.
puhekieltä To stretch cloth on such a framework.
puhekieltä To admit extension; to be stretchable.
Francis Bacon

Woollen cloth will tenter, linen scarcely.