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tenterfield

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.58 in modern English

Syllables
ten-ter-field
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A town in the New England region, northern New South Wales, Australia.

name

A local government area in northern New South Wales which includes the town; in full, Tenterfield Shire.

noun

An area used for drying newly manufactured cloth after fulling, using tenters.

Etymology

Named after Tenterfield House in Haddington, Scotland (thus indirectly after a tenterfield).

Inflected Forms

tenterfields (plural)

Phrases

Tenterfield whistle

Synonyms

tenterground

Questions

What does tenterfield mean?
A town in the New England region, northern New South Wales, Australia.
Where does tenterfield come from?
Named after Tenterfield House in Haddington, Scotland (thus indirectly after a tenterfield).

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