estricar

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (transitive) to stretch
2. (pronominal) to stretch oneself

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/estɾiˈkaɾ/

Etimologie (Engels)

Probably borrowed from Old French estrikier (“to make longer, to stretch”), whence French étriquer (“to narrow”); ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *strakkjan (“to stretch”).