astretch

Adverb

 * 1) Stretched out, extended.
 * 2) * 1912, (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,
 * 1) Straining to perceive, alert (of sensory organs or mental faculties).
 * 2) * 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;
 * As winds dispelled the dark’ning haze,
 * My eyes astretch—and all my mind afloat,
 * To learn what sort of beings filled the boat;