a machine used in the cloth-manufacture, to stretch out the pieces of cloth, stuff, &c. or only to make them even, and set them square.

It is usually about four feet and a half high, and for length exceeds that of the longest piece of cloth. It consists of several pieces of wood, placed like those which form form the barriers of a manege; so that the lower cross piece of wood may be raised or lowered, as is found requisite, to be fixed at any height, by means of pins. Along the cross-pieces, both the upper and under one are hooked nails, called tenter-hooks, driven in from space to space.