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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..

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

Prolate :: Prolate (a.) Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate..

Reach :: Reach (n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land..

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..

Prostrate :: Prostrate (a.) Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate..

Reach :: Reach (v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like..

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..

Streak :: Streak (v. t.) To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body..

Nonextensile :: Nonextensile (a.) Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.

Spread :: Spread (v. t.) To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail..

Jackstay :: "Jackstay (n.) A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened..

Protend :: Protend (v. t.) To hold out; to stretch forth.

Streel :: Streek (v. t.) To stretch; also, to lay out, as a dead body. See Streak..

Reach :: Reach (v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear..

Foreside :: Foreside (n.) The front side; the front; esp., a stretch of country fronting the sea..

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

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

Extender :: Extender (n.) One who, or that which, extends or stretches anything..

Stretcher :: Stretcher (n.) One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle..

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