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- English Word Stretch Definition A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land.
- English Word Stretch Definition The extent to which anything may be stretched.
- English Word Stretch Definition The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board.
- English Word Stretch Definition Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
- English Word Stretched Definition of Stretch
- English Word Stretcher Definition One who, or that which, stretches.
- English Word Stretcher Definition A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
- English Word Stretcher Definition A piece of timber used in building.
- English Word Stretcher Definition A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
- English Word Stretcher Definition A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
- English Word Stretcher Definition A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
- English Word Stretcher Definition An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
- English Word Stretcher Definition 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.
- English Word Stretcher Definition An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
- English Word Stretcher Definition The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
- English Word Stretching Definition of Stretch
- English Word Stretching Definition a. & n. from Stretch, v.
- English Word Stretto Definition The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue.
- English Word Stretto Definition In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time.
- English Word Strew Definition 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.