stretchingn.
/ˈstrɛtʃɪŋ/ a. The action or an act of the verb. Also with adverbs, forth, out.
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > extension or stretching
streekinga1340
stretchingc1375
outstretchinga1387
stretching out1530
splaying1531
extending?1541
outreaching1587
extension1615
outstretchedness1674
protraction1681
exporrection1697
outstretch1828
the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [noun] > distension > stretching
stretchingc1375
stretch1600
the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > [noun] > indicating weariness or languor
stretchinga1586
stretch1712
c1375 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 127 A þousand ȝeer ben to him as ȝisterday; and, shortly, al þing þat was or ever shal be hereafter is present unto him, ffor streeching of his longe beying.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxiii. 131 By stretchynge of the Iowes the frogge makyth his noyse.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 431 Not so that the thing or gouernaunce wirchith or makith bi his kinde eny strecching into the yuel.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Isa. viii. 8 The stretching out of his wings shall fil the breadth of thy lande.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Mm1v With a painfull stretching, and forced yawning.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxix. iv. 357 After they had been maimed and lamed before with stretching upon the racke.
1835 L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. I. 407 Previously to the rovings receiving their last reduction on the spinning frame, they undergo a process called stretching.
1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xxii. 212 The master Crummleses..evinced, by various half-suppressed yawns and stretchings of their limbs, an obvious inclination to retire for the night.
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) at Pandiculation In the state of health, stretching occurs before and after sleep; especially when we are fatigued.
1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) xxvi. 409 The above process..acts as a preservative and stops all further stretching, one of the disadvantages of new belts.
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the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > extension or stretching
streekinga1340
stretchingc1375
outstretchinga1387
stretching out1530
splaying1531
extending?1541
outreaching1587
extension1615
outstretchedness1674
protraction1681
exporrection1697
outstretch1828
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 277/1 Stretchyng out of a thyng, estendue.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
stretching-force n.
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1900 Jrnl. Soc. Dyers & Colourists 16 11 Such a stretching force as has been hitherto customary.
stretching-frame n.
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 383 Although this is called the stretching-frame, the yarn is not stretched, but merely undergoes a further process of drawing and spinning.
1896 Peterson Mag. (Philadelphia) N.S. VI. 242/2 The stretching frame [for the canvas of a picture], 9 ft. by 14 ft.
stretching-machine n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1190 Stretching machine. Cotton goods and other textile fabrics,..are prepared for the market by being stretched in a proper machine, which lays all their warp and woof yarns in parallel positions.
stretching-pulley n.
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1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Pl. xiv This..machine..is set a-going, or stopped, at pleasure, by a stretching pulley.
stretching-roller n.
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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 196 The tension or stretching-roller has its axle mounted in the segment-racks.
stretching-string n.
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1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 195/2 Fidiculæ,..the stretching stringes or cords of the racke.
C2. † stretching-sticks n. Obsolete a glove-stretcher.† stretching-torture n. Obsolete torture upon the rack.
stretching-board n. (a) a board used to lie upon in callisthenic exercises; (b) a flat board upon which a corpse is laid out before being placed in a coffin; (c) Leather Manufacturing = stretch-bench n. at stretch v. Compounds.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying out > board on which
stretching-board1825
stretcher1850
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun] > specific systems > equipment
stretching-board1825
society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for stretching hides or leather
softening iron1839
stretcher1839
stock-stone1875
stretcher-bar1883
stretch-bench1897
stretching-board1976
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Streik Streiking-Burd, Stretching-Burd, the board on which a dead body is stretched, before the animal heat is gone.
1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing iv, in Fraser's Mag. June 727/2 Who knows but at that moment Lady Bell was at work with a pair of her dumb namesakes, and Lady Sophy lying flat on a stretching-board?
1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xiii. 245 He had become as true a corpse as the one whose stretching board he had usurped.
1976 T. Walker Spatsizi v. 47 He taught me how to skin, showing me how to turn the hides fur side out before they were quite dry and then pull them back on the stretching board.
stretching-bond n. a bond (see bond n.1 13a) in which stretchers only (and not headers) are used.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick
hirne-stonec1000
parpen1252
coin1350
coin-stone1350
angler1365
parpal1369
corner-stonea1382
cunye1387
tuss1412
quoin1532
table stone1554
quoining1562
copestone1567
ground-stone1567
lock bandc1582
quinyie1588
perpender1611
whelmer1618
parpen stone1633
capstone1665
headera1684
through1683
quoin-stone1688
stretcher1693
closer1700
bed-stone1723
coping-brick1725
girder1726
footstone1728
heading brick1731
bossage1736
lewis-hole1740
shoulder1744
headstone1745
pawl1753
tail-bond1776
coping-stone1778
slocking-stone1778
throughband1794
through-stone1797
stretching-bond1805
core1823
keystone1823
tail-binder1828
stretching-stone1833
header brick1841
coign1843
pawl-stone1844
bay-stone1845
bonder1845
pillar-stone1854
bond-piece1862
stretcher-brick1867
toothing-stone1875
bond-stone1879
pierpoint1891
jumper1904
tush1905
padstone1944
1805 in Civil Engineer & Archit. Jrnl. 1 (1838) 330/1 Stretching bond is where the longitudinal direction of the bricks is parallel with the face of the wall.
stretching-carriage n. a tenter in the form of a carriage.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > treating or processing textile fabric > [noun] > stretching > framework > type of
stretching-carriage1877
1877 Textile Colourist Apr. 207 The series of tenters or stretching carriages may..be so arranged that the fabric is stretched..by any given number of the tenters.
stretching-course n. a course of bricks or stones laid with their length in the direction of the wall.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > single layer on same level > types of
grass tablea1472
coping1601
tableting1610
plinth1640
plinth course1693
stretching-course1700
bench1730
binding1730
earth table1822
lacing course1833
vertical bond1833
rowlock1864
cope1880
soldier course1948
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 23 I would advise in the Stretching courses, wherein you lay stretching on both sides the Wall next the Line, so also to lay stretching in the middle of the Wall.
1783 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 14 The steening [of the well]..consisted of two stretching courses of bricks.
1973 L. Russell Everyday Life Colonial Canada v. 60 Each layer of bricks was called a course; the parallel arrangement was a stretching course and the transverse a heading course.
stretching-iron n. = stretcher n. 4c.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for smoothing
sleeker1611
smoothing-iron1627
stretcher-iron1839
stretching-iron1839
slicker1852
stake1853
staking-iron1889
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 377 The stretching iron, is a flat plate of iron or copper, fully a fourth of an inch thick at top, and thinning off at bottom in a blunt edge.
1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 139/2 The stretching or softening iron..is an iron plate..mounted upon an upright beam.
stretching-mule n. = stretcher-mule n. at stretcher n. Compounds 2.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing cotton > [noun] > machine for drawing or twisting rovings
stretching-mule1835
stretcher-mule1875
1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 40 The fine bobbin and fly-roving frame..can do a certain part of the work formerly done by the stretching mule.
stretching-room n. space in which to stretch (the limbs).
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the world > space > [noun] > sufficient space or room > room to live, move, or work > for other specific actions
tumbling-room1860
stretching-room1895
1895 M. Hewlett Earthwork out of Tuscany 10 Twenty-four legs, and urgent need of stretching-room [in the railway-carriage] as the night wore on.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making other clothing > [noun] > making gloves > equipment
stretching-sticks1688
stretch-wood1883
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 360/2 In the Sinister side, are the Glovers stretching Sticks in Salter.
stretching-stone n. Building a stone set in the position of a stretcher.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick
hirne-stonec1000
parpen1252
coin1350
coin-stone1350
angler1365
parpal1369
corner-stonea1382
cunye1387
tuss1412
quoin1532
table stone1554
quoining1562
copestone1567
ground-stone1567
lock bandc1582
quinyie1588
perpender1611
whelmer1618
parpen stone1633
capstone1665
headera1684
through1683
quoin-stone1688
stretcher1693
closer1700
bed-stone1723
coping-brick1725
girder1726
footstone1728
heading brick1731
bossage1736
lewis-hole1740
shoulder1744
headstone1745
pawl1753
tail-bond1776
coping-stone1778
slocking-stone1778
throughband1794
through-stone1797
stretching-bond1805
core1823
keystone1823
tail-binder1828
stretching-stone1833
header brick1841
coign1843
pawl-stone1844
bay-stone1845
bonder1845
pillar-stone1854
bond-piece1862
stretcher-brick1867
toothing-stone1875
bond-stone1879
pierpoint1891
jumper1904
tush1905
padstone1944
1833 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Cottage Archit. §981 a is the..heading stone; and b, the..stretching stone.
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society > authority > punishment > torture > [noun] > by the rack
rackinga1513
stretching-torture1599
tympanism1661
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 67 The strapado and the stretching torture.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
stretchingadj.
/ˈstrɛtʃɪŋ/ a. That stretches, in the senses of the verb. stretching gallop, a gallop in which the legs of the horse are fully extended.
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the world > space > extension in space > [adjective]
stent1513
stretchinga1547
distent1590
stretched?1605
distending1633
stretchen1642
extending1812
outreaching1853
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > gallop
wallopingc1440
gallop1523
full gallop1569
gallopinga1616
gallop-rake1653
tantivya1658
stretching gallop1815
the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [adjective] > elastic > stretchable
stretchable1398
extensible1611
extensive1612
tensible1626
tensile1626
reaching1651
distendible1673
extendible1693
distractile1709
distensile1739
extensile1744
elastic1781
distensible1828
distensive1836
stretchy1854
stretching1897
two-way stretch1932
a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Certain Bks. Aenæis (1557) iv. sig. Eii An hundred hugie great temples he built, In his farre stretching realmes, to Jupiter.
1594 G. Chapman Σκìα Νυκτòς sig. E And in the stretching circle of her eye All things are compast.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 507 A hundred sweep, With stretching Oars at once the glassy deep.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. v. 78 Stretching plains And peopled towns.
1815 Sporting Mag. 46 116 Bring [the horse] by degrees to take regular stretching gallops.
1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 2/2 To have a stretching canter on a good horse.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Jan. 2/2 It depends upon the nature of the country, whether it is dense forest or stretching park land.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 653 You..want..a conscience made of stretching leather to deal with the Kruboy in the African climate, and live.
b. stretching beam n. a tie-beam or brace used in building.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > members of
pan1284
balka1300
lacec1330
pautre1360
dorman1374
rib1378
montant1438
dormant?1454
transom1487
ground-pillar?a1500
barge-couple1562
spar foot1579
frankpost1587
tracing1601
sleeper1607
bressumer1611
master-beam1611
muntin1611
discharge1620
dormer1623
mounting post1629
tassel1632
baufrey1640
pier1663
storey post1663
breastplate?1667
mudsill1685
template1700
brow-post1706
brow-stone1761
runner1772
stretching beam1776
pole plate1787
sabliere1800
frame stud1803
bent1815
mounting1819
bond-timber1823
storey rod1823
wall-hold1833
wall-strap1833
truss-block1883
sleeper-beam1937
shell1952
1776 G. Semple Treat. Building in Water 70 Be careful, that your stretching Beams lie firm and solid upon all your Caps.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 178/2 Stretching beams or braces are framed across to each of the ribs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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