It comes from one of the processes of making woolen cloth. After it had been woven, the cloth still contained oil from the fleece, mixed with dirt. Then it had to be dried carefully or it would shrink or crease. So the lengths of wet cloth were stretched on wooden frames, and left out in the open for some time. This allowed them to dry and straightened their weave. These frames were the tenters and the tenterhooks were the metal hooks used to fix the cloth to the frame. And as the story reveals, the phrase shows an extreme state of anxiety about sth.i
I left him upon the tenterhooks of impatient uncertainty.i
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