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  • Stretch-halter and stretch-hemp (and stretch-neck, for which the OED cites only Conan Doyle's The White Company) clearly signify wishful thinking by the speaker, but a stretchrope is only a bellringer, and Stretchlegs is a personification of Death.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1 1987

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