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verb

Stretch v. i.

To be extended; to be drawn out in length or in breadth, or both; to spread; to reach; as, the iron road stretches across the continent; the lake stretches over fifty square miles. "As far as stretcheth any ground."

To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.

To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances. "The inner membrane... because it would stretch and yield, remained umbroken."

To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts. (Obs. or Colloq.)

(Naut.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.

Stretch out, an order to rowers to extend themselves forward in dipping the oar.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Stretch out" Quotes from Famous Books

... o'clock in the evening, the raft came to shore in a bay shaded by palm-trees. L'Encuerado hastened to stretch out his tigers' skins, and, as night was at hand, we contented ourselves with the remains of a tortoise. The Indian, who had walked but little, cocked his gun and strolled along the edge of the river. In about a quarter of an hour he ...

— Adventures of a Young Naturalist • Lucien Biart

... had to promise to stay on the trunk of the tree and never grow any higher, but it sighed for its mother vine, and, because it could not climb, never grew any big blossoms, but tiny little flowers which sighed because they could not stretch out their vines and grow. But the tree kept the little Glory to its promise and not a vine could get ...

— Sandman's Goodnight Stories • Abbie Phillips Walker

... dangerous even in daylight: what woman would have found them in the night? What woman would have chilled the air around her, and have made the blood flow cold through all my veins? Yet if she come again I will speak to her. I will stretch out my hand and see whether she be mortal ...

— John Ingerfield and Other Stories • Jerome K. Jerome

... reappear; all their senses are magical; some are endowed with a multiplicity of eyes, others have a multiplicity of ears; in Norse mythology the watchman on the rainbow bridge could hear the grass grow, and wool on the backs of sheep; arms can stretch out to grasp the distance, tails can coil about mountains, and all powers become magical. But the most wonderful power with which the gods are endowed is the power of will, for we find that they can think their arrows ...

— Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians • John Wesley Powell

... would buy three spars worth ten pounds in Sydney. A tenpenny nail would purchase a large fish. A musket and a little powder and lead were worth a ton of scraped flax. Baskets of potatoes would be brought down and ranged on the sea-beach three deep. The white trader would then stretch out enough calico to cover them. The strip was their price. The Maoris loved the higgling of the market, and would enjoy nothing better than to spend half a day over bartering away a single pig. Moreover, a peculiar and profitable, if ghastly, trade sprang up in tattooed ...

— The Long White Cloud • William Pember Reeves

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