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Definition of Restretching
1. restretch [v] - See also: restretch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Restretching
Literary usage of Restretching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen by Thomas Ewing French (1918)
"Tracing cloth is very sensitive to atmospheric changes, often expanding over
night so as to require restretching. If the complete tracing cannot be finished ..."
2. A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen by Thomas Ewing French (1918)
"Tracing cloth is very sensitive to atmospheric changes, often expanding over
night so as to require restretching. If the complete tracing cannot be finished ..."
3. A Manual of Engineering Drawing for Students and Draftsmen by Thomas Ewing French (1918)
"Tracing cloth is very sensitive to atmospheric changes, often expanding over
night so as to require restretching. If the complete tracing cannot be finished ..."
4. Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter, from His Autobiography by Benjammin Robert Haydon (1853)
"Out and superintended the restretching of Solomon, began 1812, finished 1813,
thirty-two years ago. I really am astonished at the picture, and so will the ..."
5. Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter, from His Autobiography by Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853)
"After painting, I always look back at the time I have lost in writing, but still
I go on writing. " 7th.— Out and superintended the restretching of Solomon, ..."
6. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1909)
"With improvements in operative methods the painful and annoying practice of a
long course of treatment in stretching, dividing, and restretching adhesions ..."
7. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference-book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1898)
"... slip, and require frequent restretching and relaci! because this tension will
cause an undue pressure on the therefore an undue loss of power by ..."
8. The Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book: A Reference-book of Rules, Tables by William Kent (1902)
"... first, because it requires so great an initial tension that it is apt to
stretch, slip, and require frequent restretching and relacing; and second, ..."
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