Portuguese term (edited): R�mula

rame elargisseuse, rame inFrench

pinza de rama in Spanish

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Note added at 14 mins (2003-11-26 18:50:55 GMT)
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rama tensora in Spanish

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Note added at 37 mins (2003-11-26 19:13:38 GMT)
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... Other machinery includes fulling stocks, a wetting out machine, rotary milling machines, a flock shaker, scouring machine, mangle, tenter frame, teasel raising ...
... After fulling the cloth was dried on tenter-frames. At Slaidburn, the tenter-frames were adjacent to the fulling mill on Tenter Hill. ...
... The operation is known as tentering and was formerly carried out by stretching the cloth more or less gently on tenter frames and allowing it to dry in the sun ...
... Taew, To strive. Tail goit, Channel from the mill. Tenter, Frame for stretching cloth to dry on tenter hooks. Thoil, To bear; endure; not begrudge; spare. Throng, Busy. ...
... Tenter / Tenterer, 1) Someone who, after cloth was dyed, stretched it on a frame, called a \"Tent\" for drying . ... ie Tip tenter - person inspecting finished ...
... Upstairs, the local museum is dedicated to the cloth trade. A model of the tenter frames (on which cloth was stretched to dry) is on display. ...
... Wet cloth is then TENTER dried by pinning the \"selvedge\" onto pins and passing it through a drying chamber or can be tumbled to dry and relax the cloth. ...
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