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Definition of Restretched
1. restretch [v] - See also: restretch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Restretched
Literary usage of Restretched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Use of Belting for the Transmission of Power by John Haldeman Cooper (1888)
"The belts have to be restretched only every eight or ten months, in spite of th&
rather considerable charge which they support ..."
2. The Steel Square and Its Uses: A Complete, Up-to-date Encyclopedia on the by William A. Radford (1907)
"... neither can we depend on a line stretched across because when it is restretched
on an accessible place of measurement we have no way of determining when ..."
3. Orchard & Garden: A Guide for Beginners by Benjamin Wallace Douglass (1918)
"When the mat is the size of the wooden frame, the strings may be loosened, the
mat rolled up. and the strings restretched ready for another section of mat. ..."
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