Archaic or rare term meaning stretched out, extended, or drawn tight.
From Old English or Middle English combining 'extra-' with 'aught' (a variant of 'ought,' meaning pulled or stretched), representing an obsolete word formation pattern.
This word is so old that it's practically extinct from English, but it shows how people once had different words for different kinds of stretching and pulling—we've consolidated many of those concepts into simpler modern words.
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