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  • The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter (from the Latin "tendere", to stretch) using hooks (nails driven through the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges (selvages) were fixed so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size. [

    Pam Holland Designs and Productions 2009

  • The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter (from the Latin "tendere", to stretch) using hooks (nails driven through the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges (selvages) were fixed so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size. [

    Pam Holland Designs and Productions 2009

  • The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter (from the Latin "tendere", to stretch) using hooks (nails driven through the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges (selvages) were fixed so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size. [

    Pam Holland Designs and Productions 2009

  • The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter (from the Latin "tendere", to stretch) using hooks (nails driven through the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges (selvages) were fixed so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size. [

    Pam Holland Designs and Productions 2009

  • Questo includeva, tendere ad 3000 giochi gratis medievali, derivi alcuni dinamiche fantasy, perforate i intercorrono e la magia.

    Quote of the Day II 2009

  • I juggle parrots on tenterhooks tentus tendere to stretch

    FEATURED POET: REBECCA LOUDON EILEEN 2009

  • For one thing, the word for which conari is substituted, tendere, can have similar connotations itself, carrying the sense of a try or an attempt.

    Spinoza's Physical Theory Manning, Richard 2006

  • Tempore pacis per terras proprias de palatio ad palatium, aut de regno ad regnum, dum tendere ei placet, comitatur vtique magna multitudine hominum antè et retrò, et ex vtroque laterum.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Hoc verè sciendum, neminem peregrinorum per hæc deserta sine ductore posse tendere, cui notæ sunt viæ, sed nec equi valent transire, præcipuè quòd non inuenirent in desertis quid bibere.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Tempore pacis per terras proprias de palatio ad palatium, aut de regno ad regnum, dum tendere ei placet, comitatur vtique magna multitudine hominum ant� et retr�, et ex vtroque laterum.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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