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Definition of Restretch
1. stretch [v -ED, -ING, -ES] - See also: stretch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Restretch
Literary usage of Restretch
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Berber; Or, The Mountaineer of the Atlas: A Tale of Morocco by William Starbuck Mayo (1850)
"The Berber sprang down the pathway from the ruins to the ravine, where three or
four men were engaged in restretch- ing and securing the cords of the bridge ..."
2. History of the Twelfth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers in the War of the by Asa W. Bartlett (1897)
"He helped tear down and restretch the telegraph wire at Drury's Bluff.* Married
Lizzie E., daughter of Andrew Riggs, of Gloucester, Mass., February 6, 1869. ..."
3. A Treatise on Steam-boilers: Their Strength, Construction, and Economical by Robert Wilson (1889)
"If we continue to stretch our bar by increasing the load until it tears asunder,
and then restretch the broken pieces, we shall find that they will bear as ..."
4. A Treatise on Steam Boilers: Their Strength Construction, and Econmical Working by Robert Wilson (1879)
"If we continue to stretch our bar by increasing the load until it tears asunder,
and then restretch the broken pieces, we shall find that they will bear as ..."
5. Structural Drafting and the Design of Details by Carlton Thomas Bishop (1920)
"It is often impossible to restretch the cloth flat until the selvage is removed,
and at times it is difficult to do so at all; hence it is important to ..."