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▪ I. stretching, vbl. n.|ˈstrɛtʃɪŋ|
[f. stretch v. + -ing1.]
a. The action or an act of the verb. Also with advs., forth, out.
c1375Wyclif Serm. 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. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxiii. (1495) 131 By stretchynge of the Iowes the frogge makyth his noyse. c1449Pecock Repr. iv. iii. 431 Not so that the thing or gouernaunce wirchith or makith bi his kinde eny strecching into the yuel, but that [etc.]. 1560Bible (Genev.) Isa. viii. 8 And the stretching out of his wings shall fil the breadth of thy lande. a1586Sidney Arcadia iv. (1598) 399 With a painfull stretching, and forced yawning. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxix. iv. 357 After they had been maimed and lamed before with stretching upon the racke. 1835L. Hebert Engin. & Mech. Encycl. I. 407 Previously to the rovings receiving their last reduction on the spinning frame, they undergo a process called stretching. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xxii, The Masters Crummles..evinced, by various half-suppressed yawns and stretchings of their limbs, an obvious inclination to retire for the night. 1855Dunglison Med. Lex. s.v. Pandiculation, In the state of health, stretching occurs before and after sleep; especially when we are fatigued. 1897C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather xxvi. (ed. 2) 409 The above process..acts as a preservative and stops all further stretching, one of the disadvantages of new belts.
†b. stretching out: extent. Obs.—0
1530Palsgr. 277/1 Stretchyng out of a thyng, estendue.
c. attrib. and Comb., as stretching-force, stretching-frame, stretching-machine, stretching-pulley, stretching-roller, stretching-string; stretching-board, (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-manuf. = stretch-bench s.v. stretch v. 24; stretching-bond, a bond (see bond n.1 13 a) in which stretchers only (and not headers) are used; stretching-carriage, a tenter in the form of a carriage; stretching-course, a course of bricks or stones laid with their length in the direction of the wall; stretching-iron = stretcher n. 4 c; stretching-mule = stretcher-mule; stretching-room, space in which to stretch (the limbs); † stretching-sticks, a glove-stretcher; stretching-stone Building, a stone set in the position of a stretcher; † stretching-torture, torture upon the rack.
1825Jamieson, Streiking-Burd, *Stretching-Burd. 1843Thackeray Ravenswing iv, 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? 1847H. Miller First Impr. xiii. (1857) 221 He had become as true a corpse as the one whose stretching-board he had usurped. 1976T. 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.
1805in Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. (1838) I. 330/1 *Stretching bond is where the longitudinal direction of the bricks is parallel with the face of the wall.
1876in Textile Colourist III. 207 The series of tenters or *stretching carriages may..be so arranged that the fabric is stretched..by any given number of the tenters.
1693Moxon Mech. Exerc. (1703) 261, 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. 1783Phil. Trans. LXXIV. 14 The steening [of the well]..consisted of two stretching courses of bricks. 1973L. 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.
1900Jrnl. Soc. Dyers XVI. 11 Such a *stretching force as has been hitherto customary.
1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 383 Although this is called the *stretching-frame, the yarn is not stretched, but merely undergoes a further process of drawing and spinning. 1896Peterson Mag. (Philad.) N.S. VI. 242/2 The stretching frame [for the canvas of a picture], 9 ft. by 14 ft.
1839Ure 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. 1851–54Tomlinson's Cycl. Useful Arts (1867) II. 37/2 The stretching or softening iron..is an upright plate..mounted upon an upright beam.
1839Ure 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.
1835― Philos. Manuf. 40 The fine bobbin and fly-roving frame..can do a certain part of the work formerly done by the *stretching mule.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Plate xiv, This..machine..is set a-going, or stopped, at pleasure, by a *stretching pulley.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 196 The tension or *stretching-roller has its axle mounted in the segment-racks.
1895M. Hewlett Earthwork out of Tuscany 10 Twenty-four legs, and urgent need of *stretching-room [in the railway-carriage] as the night wore on.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 360/2 In the Sinister side, are the Glovers *stretching Sticks in Salter.
1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §981, a is the..heading stone; and b, the..*stretching stone.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 195/2 Fidiculæ,..the *stretching stringes or cords of the racke.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuff 67 The strapado and the *stretching torture.
▪ II. stretching, ppl. a.|ˈstrɛtʃɪŋ|
[f. stretch v. + -ing2.]
That stretches, in the senses of the verb. stretching gallop, a gallop in which the legs of the horse are fully extended.
a1547Surrey æneid iv. 258 (1557) E ij, An hundred hugie great temples he built, In his farre stretching realmes, to Jupiter. 1594Chapman Shadow of Nt. E j b, And in the stretching circle of her eye All things are compast. 1697Dryden æneis x. 297 A hundred sweep, With stretching Oars at once the glassy deep. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xliii, Stretching plains, And peopled towns. 1815Sporting Mag. XLVI. 116 Bring [the horse] by degrees to take regular stretching gallops. 1872Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 2/2 To have a stretching canter on a good horse. 1887Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Jan. 2/2 It depends upon the nature of the country, whether it is dense forest or stretching park land. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 653 You..want..a conscience made of stretching leather to deal with the Kruboy in the African climate, and live.
b. stretching beam, a tie-beam or brace used in building.
1776G. Semple Building in Water 70 Be careful, that your stretching Beams lie firm and solid upon all your Caps. 1838Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 178/2 Stretching beams or braces are framed across to each of the ribs. |