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Stretch
v. t.
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To draw or pull out to greater length; to strain; as, to stretch a tendon or muscle.
Stretch
v. t.
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To exaggerate; to extend too far; as, to stretch the truth; to stretch one's credit.
Stretch
v. i.
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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.
Stretch
v. i.
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To extend or spread one's self, or one's limbs; as, the lazy man yawns and stretches.
Stretch
v. i.
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To be extended, or to bear extension, without breaking, as elastic or ductile substances.
Stretch
v. i.
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To strain the truth; to exaggerate; as, a man apt to stretch in his report of facts.
Stretch
v. i.
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To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
Stretch
n.
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A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
Stretch
n.
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The extent to which anything may be stretched.
Stretch
n.
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The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.
Stretch
n.
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Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
Stretcher
n.
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One who, or that which, stretches.
Stretcher
n.
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A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
Stretcher
n.
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A piece of timber used in building.
Stretcher
n.
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A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
Stretcher
n.
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A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
Stretcher
n.
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A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
Stretcher
n.
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An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
Stretcher
n.
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One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
Stretcher
n.
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An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
Stretcher
n.
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The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
Stretching
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a. & n. from Stretch, v.
Stretto
n.
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The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue.
Stretto
n.
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In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time.
Strewed
imp. & p. p.
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strewn
p. p.
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Strewing
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Strew
Strew
v. t.
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To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave.
Strew
v. t.
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To spread abroad; to disseminate.
Strewing
n.
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The act of scattering or spreading.