astretch
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From a- + stretch.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: a