tenterhook's Usage Examples:

Verdict on disqualification of 18 MLAs on June 14; Tamil Nadu on tenterhooks Echo of poll debacle: AMMK sees many jumping ship v t e.

Deintyr (top of the hill tenterhooks) is a link with the early woollen industry in the district.

and dried cloth on machines called tenters (hence the expression "on tenterhooks").

water mill, followed by stretching the cloth on great frames known as tenters, to which it is attached by tenterhooks.

a ver si podemos empezar ya a tocar el balón"" [Francho: "We are on tenterhooks, hoping that we could start touching the ball now"] (in Spanish).

The parish council election approaches and Pagford is on tenterhooks, awaiting the next post from "The Ghost of Barry Fairbrother".

The name originates where "tenterhooks" were used in the process.

(Note: Stenter pins are the modern equivalent of tenterhooks) The input and output speed of the fabric is closely controlled, as is.

Europe is on tenterhooks in the 2nd decade of the 20th century.

in small installments, so that hundreds of politicians had to live on tenterhooks for months.

Its title comes from the tenterhooks used to stretch cloth.

area where Flemish weavers stretched and dried cloth on machines called tenters (hence the expression "on tenterhooks").

It is from this process that some have the expression "on tenterhooks", meaning in a state of nervous tension.

Synonyms:

hook, claw, tenter,

Antonyms:

undercharge, straight line, unhook, unfasten,