Word: tenterhooks
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: ten
ter
hooks
Definition: Plural of tenterhook; one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter
Morphemes:
Affix: tenter
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: A framework upon which cloth is stretched and dried.
Etymology Compounds: Affix: tentorium
Language: la
Decoded: tentorium
PoS: Noun
Meaning: tent
Affix: hook
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook.
Affix: -s
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form many pluralia tantum (nouns that are almost or entirely without singular forms).