Tendícula, tendículæ, f. g. pen. cor. A ginne or snare to take birdes or beastes.Tendiculæ literarum.Cic.Captious wrestings of cuery letter, to haft or take aduauntage by it.Tendiculæ. Sene. Tainters, or tenthes that imbroderers vse. Fullers tainters.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
tendĭcŭla, ae, f.dim. [tendo], a little stretcher.I.Lit.: vestimenta tendiculis diducta, Sen. Q. N. 1, 3, 2.—II.Trop. ( = fraus), a little snare, noose: aucupia verborum et litterarum tendiculae, Cic. Caecin. 23, 65: verborum tendiculas aucupemur, Ambros. de Fide, 3, 5, 37; Vulg. Prov. 1, 11.