a. [f. STRETCH sb. or v. + -LESS.] Incapable of being stretched.

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  Used in the leather belting trade to designate belting from which the ‘stretch’ has been taken out (see STRETCH sb. 1 h).

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1872.  Philad. Inquirer, 13 Sept., 4/3. There is no stretching a stretchless income.

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