lift tenter

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Lift tenter

Windmills, a governor for regulating the speed by adjusting the sails, or for adjusting the action of grinding machinery according to the speed.

From the entry Lift.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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