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Tree is inTREEgued by the spikes already in the wood...

...do continue

Tree
 
nis there a end?:confused:
 
something wrong with that link, Tree - I've tried editing it but still just get error message
 
Eulalia said:
something wrong with that link, Tree - I've tried editing it but still just get error message
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Its the fourth picture in the series of four when he is shoving spikes into your nipples and something else into your mouth... Crazy or Brave...

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I am waiting on tenterhooks to see how it ends.
Now that's a thought - "Eulalia on tenterhooks" - that I'd love to see.:D
Does the well factor in this tale? If so , how?
 
cruxlover said:
I am waiting on tenterhooks to see how it ends.
Now that's a thought - "Eulalia on tenterhooks" - that I'd love to see.:D
Does the well factor in this tale? If so , how?
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I've always wondered what that phrase meant. Thanks to the Internet, I now know:
Tenterhooks are hooks in an older kind of device called a tenter. Tenters were large wooden frames which were used as far back as the 14th century in the process of making woollen cloth. After a piece of cloth was woven, it still contained oil from the fleece and some dirt. A craftsperson called a fuller (also called a tucker or walker) cleaned the woollen cloth in a fulling mill, and then had to dry it carefully or the woollen fabric would shrink. To prevent this shrinkage, the fuller would place the wet cloth on a tenter, and leave it to dry outdoors. The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter (from Latin tendere, meaning "to stretch") using tenterhooks (hooked nails driven through the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges (selvedges) were fixed, so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size.[1] In some manufacturing areas, entire tenter-fields, larger open spaces full of tenters, were once common.
By the mid-18th century, the phrase "on tenterhooks" came to mean being in a state of tension, uneasiness, anxiety, or suspense, i.e. figuratively stretched like the cloth on the tenter. (Wikipedia)

So, it means being streatched on some kind of frame. Like, maybe, a rack?:cool:
Eulalla streached on a rack? Yes. I think we'd all like to see that.:D
 
that's right Naraku - we have Tenter Fields, Crofts, Banks etc. around all the old weaving towns in Yorkshire, the Scottish Borders, etc., where the cloth was stretched on tenter-frames. In the north-east of Scotland, tenterhooks and frames were also used for drying fish (perhaps not the same ones they put their blankets on, but I wouldn't be too sure!:p)

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They look quite vicious spikes,​
indeed the possibilities for Eul-torture are intriguing!​
 
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