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Reach :: Reach (n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity..

Procrustes :: Procrustes (n.) A celebrated legendary highwayman of Attica, who tied his victims upon an iron bed, and, as the case required, either stretched or cut of their legs to adapt them to its length; -- whence the metaphorical phrase, the bed of Procrustes..

Plain :: Plain (a.) Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies..

Kettledrum :: Kettledrum (n.) A drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it..

Straw :: Straught (v. t.) To stretch; to make straight.

Laster :: Laster (n.) A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last..

Distend :: Distend (v. t.) To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc..

Distend :: Distend (v. t.) To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.

Snowshoe :: Snowshoe (n.) A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about one third as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having a support and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking on soft snow..

Procrusteanize :: Procrusteanize (v. t.) To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.

Reach :: Reach (n.) Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope..

Board :: Board (n.) The stretch which a ship makes in one tack.

Spread :: Spread (v. i.) To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand..

Distention :: Distention (n.) The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs..

Stretch :: Stretch (v. i.) To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward..

Snare :: Snare (n.) The gut or string stretched across the lower head of a drum.

Tenter :: Tenter (n.) A machine or frame for stretching cloth by means of hooks, called tenter-hooks, so that it may dry even and square..

Intense :: Intense (a.) Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought..

Upright :: Upright (a.) Stretched out face upward; flat on the back.

Filar :: Filar (a.) Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer..

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