"astretch" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1854, John Stanyan Bigg, Night and the Soul, London: Groombridge, Scene 5, p. 69",
          "text": "A thing half dead, with weary arms astretch / For anything to cling to",
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          "ref": "1897, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Striped Chest”, in The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport, London: Smith, Elder, published 1905, page 204",
          "text": "My second mate was standing […] with his short, thick legs astretch, for the gale had left a considerable swell behind it,",
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          "text": "1912, Saki (H. H. Munro), “The Music on the Hill” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, p. 153,\nAstretch in a pool of mud was an enormous sow,"
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          "ref": "1987, Edith L. B. Turner, “The Fish Eagle”, in The Spirit and the Drum, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, page 97",
          "text": "This time I heard something new in the beat of the drums, a trip-hammer knock that sent my heart racing, a stutter that made me choke and grin, that set my heels tapping, my toes astretch.",
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        "Stretched out, extended."
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          "text": "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,\n[…] with attentive gaze,\nAs winds dispelled the dark’ning haze,\nMy eyes astretch—and all my mind afloat,\nTo learn what sort of beings filled the boat;"
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          "ref": "1897, Louis Robinson, Wild Traits in Tame Animals, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Introduction, pp. 19-20",
          "text": "At the same moment every faculty is keenly astretch for further information which may aid in the conclusion he must come to before he stirs hand or foot.",
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          "ref": "1958, Mary Stewart, chapter 9, in Nine Coaches Waiting, New York: Fawcett Crest, published 1970, page 127",
          "text": "And when, very late, I heard a car coming up the zigzag I jumped to my feet, nerves instantly astretch,",
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        {
          "ref": "1978, Nicolas Freeling, chapter 15, in The Night Lords,, New York: Pantheon, page 63",
          "text": "Undoubtedly the old bag had been hovering just inside her own doorway, ears astretch to catch his fairy footstep.",
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        "Straining to perceive, alert (of sensory organs or mental faculties)."
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          "text": "1912, Saki (H. H. Munro), “The Music on the Hill” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, p. 153,\nAstretch in a pool of mud was an enormous sow,"
        },
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          "ref": "1987, Edith L. B. Turner, “The Fish Eagle”, in The Spirit and the Drum, Tucson: University of Arizona Press, page 97",
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        },
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        },
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