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stretchable, a.|ˈstrɛtʃəb(ə)l|
[f. stretch v. + -able.]
Capable of being stretched.
1398Trevisa Barth De P.R. v. xxv. (1495) 135 Yf they [sc. fowl] haue longe neckes and strechable [Bodl. MS. streccheable: L. abile ad declinandum] they bynde theym as it were foldynge in pleyghtes whan they flee. 1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xii. xii. III. 388 Strenuous Siege; which, had..the Laws of Nature and the rigours of Arithmetic..been stretchable entities, might have succeeded better! 1889A. James Diary 16 Nov. (1965) 56 She seems as large a joke as ever, an embodiment of the stretchable, a purely transatlantic and modern possibility. 1975L. Blue To Heaven with Scribes & Pharisees iv. 39 Jewish cooking..inclines to casseroles and stews, which are infinitely stretchable. |