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noun Metalworking.

a mill for rolling and stretching seamless tubes, the rolls of each successive stand operating more quickly than those of the preceding.

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Also called stretch reducing mill .

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The plan is to stretch it out as long as possible, then probably forget about it, and then suddenly remember it.
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Not even Radio Bemba (Cuban slang for the rumor mill) had picked up the signal.
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“You need to stretch kids slightly outside their comfort zones, but never have surprises,” she said.
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But men we had known and trails we had followed furnished us plenty of grist for the conversational mill.
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I could see only the stretch of green before me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.
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A long stretch of smooth ice followed, over which he glided with ever-increasing speed.
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The hut was barely high enough to let him sit up, and long enough to let him lie down—not to stretch out.
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Sounds rotten, but that's their style; and you've been through the mill at home enough to know what it is to be knifed socially.
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