Meaning of astretch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Stretched out, extended.
   not-comparable
2. Straining to perceive, alert (of sensory organs or mental faculties).
   not-comparable

Examples

“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⟳,”

“This time I heard something new in the beat⟳ of the drums, a trip-hammer knock⟳ that sent my heart racing, a stutter that made me choke and grin, that set⟳ my heels tapping, my toes astretch.”

“1833, Hamlet Wood, The Negro: An Historical Poem […] describing the unchristian and wicked principle and practices of slavery, Burslem, UK: for the author, p. 41, […] with attentive gaze, As winds dispelled the dark’ning haze, My eyes astretch—and all my mind⟳ afloat, To learn⟳ what sort⟳ of beings filled the boat;”

“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,”

“Undoubtedly the old bag had been hovering just inside her own⟳ doorway, ears astretch to catch⟳ his fairy footstep.”

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