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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Strekit, Streikit, Stretched, Streeched, ppl. adj. [e.m.E. stratched (1518), stretched (1535); Strek(e v.] a. Extended, thrust up or forward (out). b. Of a plough: Harnessed to the draught animal(s), hence, engaged in ploughing, working, operating. c. fig. Stretched or extended beyond what is correct or proper; exaggerated. —a. 1533 Boece 388b.
Scottis … recounterit Danis, and with strekit speris sett on thame — c1660 Dumfr. & Galloway Soc. 3 Ser. XXI 148.
Sins in the gesture are such as … vaine looks, streeched out necks, wobleting with the head [etc.] —b. 1602 Reg. Privy C. VI 364.
[The said Mains which his servants were tilling] with his awne streikit pleuch —c. 1685-8 Renwick Serm. 575.
Ye have a way, Sir, of drawing stretched consequences from words and sentences (which I cannot join with)