a. [f. STRETCH v. + -ABLE.] Capable of being stretched.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., V. xxv. (1495), 135. Yf they [sc. fowl] haue longe neckes and strechable [Bodl. MS. streccheable: L. abile ad declinandum] they bynde theym as it were foldynge in pleyghtes whan they flee.
1862. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XII. xii. III. 388. Strenuous Siege; which, had … the Laws of Nature and the rigours of Arithmetic … been stretchable entities, might have succeeded better!
