stretch (subs.) Copy link Outline I. EffortII. Extent (cf. "grassy stretches of land," Blackwood) • stretch (subs.): I. Effort: intentio, contentio: v. effort, straining (subs.). II. Extent (cf. "grassy stretches of land," Blackwood): spătium, ambĭtus (v. extent, space, subs.): tractus (v. reach, subs.). Phr.: at a s.: he would extemporize a couple of hundred lines at a s., ducentos versus dictabat stans pede in uno, Hor. S. 1, 4, 10 (may also be expr. by, uno tempore, simul: v. once, II.). [For to keep the mind or energies upon the s., v. to tax, to task.]