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astretch

adv

Etymology

From a- + stretch.

  1. derived from *(s)treg-✻
  2. inherited from *strakkjan✻ — “to stretch, make taut or tight”
  3. inherited from streċċan — “to stretch, hold out, extend, spread out, prostrate”
  4. inherited from strecchen
  5. prefixed as astretch — “a + stretch”

Definitions

  1. Stretched out, extended.

    • A thing half dead, with weary arms astretch / For anything to cling to
    • My second mate was standing […] with his short, thick legs astretch, for the gale had left a considerable swell behind it,
    • 1912, Saki (H. H. Munro), “The Music on the Hill” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, p. 153, Astretch in a pool of mud was an enormous sow,

  2. Straining to perceive, alert (of sensory organs or mental faculties).

    • At the same moment every faculty is keenly astretch for further information which may aid in the conclusion he must come to before he stirs hand or foot.
    • And when, very late, I heard a car coming up the zigzag I jumped to my feet, nerves instantly astretch,

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA