Definition of "stretch forth" []

• Thrust or extend out (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "There 's Harry, now, is as handy as a girl, and if he says he 'll do a thing, I know 't' ll be done, – and Aunt Lois illustrated her doctrine by calling up Harry, and making him stretch forth his arms for a skein of blue-mixed yarn which she was going to wind."
• "At the end of the century, St. Augustine tells us: "They who pray do with the members of their body that which befits suppliants; they fix their knees, stretch forth their hands, or even prostrate themselves on the ground" (De curâ pro mortuis, v)."