Meanings (ES + gloss)
elongar
To make (something) long or longer, for example, by pulling or stretching; to make (something) elongated; to extend, to lengthen.
As Mr. Arabin had already moved out of the parsonage of St. Ewold's, that scheme of elongating the dining-room was of course abandoned; but he would have refurnished the whole dean…
[T]he despairing wretches [people accused of being witches] confirmed what the children said, with many other extravagant circumstances, as the mode of elongating a goat's back by…