astreccan

By surface analysis, ā- +‎ streċċan

• IPA^(key): /ɑːˈstret.t͡ʃɑn/

āstreċċan

1. to stretch out, extend
   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Þā cwæð sē Ælmihtiġa tō Moysen, "Āstreċe ðīne hand ofer ðā sǣ, and tōdǣl hī." And Moyses ðā slōh þǣre sǣ ofer mid his gyrde, and sēo sǣ tōēode on twā, and eal þæt Israhela folc ēode ofer ðā sǣ bē drīum grunde, and þæt wæter stōd him on twā healfa swilċe ōðer stānweall.

     Then the Almighty said to Moses: "Stretch forth thy hand over the sea, and divide it." And then Moses struck the sea with his staff, and the sea divided in two, and all the Israelites crossed over the sea on dry ground, and the water stood in two halves like stone walls.

   • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church

     Sum hǣðen man wolde hine ācwellan mid ātogenum swurde, and sē hālga ālēat, and āstrehte his swūran under ðām scīnendan brande.

     A certain heathen man wanted to kill him with a drawn sword, and the holy man bent down and stretched out his neck under the shining brand.

2. to prostrate, bow down

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “a-streccan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.