stretching

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle English strecching, strecchinge, equivalent to stretch + -ing.

The towels dried along a line of her own stretching. — The best short stories of 1919, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
The MS. has "low broad vaults;" and in 279, "stretching" for crushing. — The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott
Manipulation and pulling and stretching are favourite appliances of remedy in all this part of Africa. — Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846, James Richardson

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