Meaning

(rare, transitive) To stretch out, forth, or forward..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare, transitive) To stretch out, forth, or forward.
2. (rare, of a seascape) That which stretches out, forth, or forward.

Example Sentences

Bend in the forest then the plastic elm, By pressure moulded to the plough-beam's curve: To this be fitted at its nether point An eight foot pole, forestretching; back to back

In short, in their persuasive efforts to please, to give everybody "a sweet taste of liberty," the Commission had pleased no one. Thus was the Commission, caught in vast inscrutables, uneasily observing a hydra-headed giant, forestretched, abysmally yawning, in disturbed slumber.

That's enough," said Heer-bai blocking the father's path with her forestretched arms.

Now, we had not been looking about us above five minutes when, happening to glance aft past the helmsman, I saw the ocean not above half a mile distant white as milk: the forestretch of it was about two miles long; how wide it went back I could not say, [...]

Into it, he slowed and stiffened still more, as though he waded through a holding action, biding till the curve and then the forestretch where he could be faster.

A seascape, its forestretch is an ocean inlet bounded at a short distance by a low rocky promontary coming from the right edge and submerging near the left; beyond, the sea reaches away to the horizon where a large mountainous island lies [...]

Word Forms

• forestretches
• forestretching
• forestretched

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