The Collaborative International Dictionary
Protend \Pro*tend"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Protended; p. pr. & vb. n. Protending.] [L. protendere, protensum; pro before, forth + tendere to stretch.] To hold out; to stretch forth. [Obs.]
With his protended lance he makes defence.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (context obsolete English) To hold out; to stretch forth.
Usage examples of "protend".
When he looks down the terrace in front of him he sees a little to his left a solitary guest, a middle-aged gentleman sitting on a chair of iron laths at a little iron table with a bowl of lump sugar and three wasps on it, reading the Standard, with his umbrella up to defend him from the sun, which, in August and at less than an hour after noon, is toasting his protended insteps.
Idiots, with blear eyes and protending underlips, gibbered and whined.
Batouch appeared, languidly smoking a cigarette, and with a large flower tied to a twig protending from behind his ear.