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A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp. Within his tent, large as is a barn. Chaucer.

A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square. Tenter ground, a place where tenters are erected. -- Tenter-hook, a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth on a tenter. -- To be on the tenters, or on the tenter-hooks, to be on the stretch; to be…

(Conus textilis) in which the colors are arranged so that they resemble certain kinds of cloth.

connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.

rom one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.

To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.

A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen. McElrath.

Clothes; furniture; appurtenances; luggage; as, to pack or store one's things. [Colloq.]

ton. To think much, to esteem a great matter; to grudge. [Obs.] "[He] thought not much to clothe his enemies." Milton. -- To think scorn. (a) To disdain. [Obs.] "He thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone." Esther iii. 6. (b) To feel indignation. [Obs.]

Worn to the naked thread; having the nap worn off; threadbare clothes. "A threadbare cope." Chaucer.

Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.

ng; looking or being in good condition; becoming. [Obs.] I sit at home, I have no thrifty cloth. Chaucer.

In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout.

of yarn. Thrum cap, a knitted cap. Halliwell. -- Thrum hat, a hat made of coarse woolen cloth. Minsheu.

leaves, and joined pods roughened with minute hooked hairs by which the joints adhere to clothing and to the fleece of sheep.

Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open; as, tight cloth; a tight knot.

A ribbon or string used to draw clothes closer. [Obs.]

The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon.

d with reference to repetition; addition of a number to itself; repetition; as, to double cloth four times; four times four, or sixteen. Summers three times eight save one. Milton.

A genus of small Lepidoptera, including the clothes moths and carpet moths.