astretch

== English == === Etymology === From a- +‎ stretch. === Adverb === astretch (not comparable) Stretched out, extended. 1912, Saki (H. H. Munro), “The Music on the Hill” in The Chronicles of Clovis, London: John Lane, p. 153,[3] Astretch in a pool of mud was an enormous sow, Straining to perceive, alert (of sensory organs or mental faculties). 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,[5] […] with attentive gaze, As winds dispelled the dark’ning haze, My eyes astretch—and all my mind afloat, To learn what sort of beings filled the boat; === Anagrams === chatters, ratchets