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Answer for the clue "One imposing stretch is clear about 17 ", 9 letters:
tensioner

Word definitions for tensioner in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any device that maintains or applies tension

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tensioner is a device that applies a force to create or maintain tension . The force may be applied parallel to, as in the case of a hydraulic bolt tensioner, or perpendicular to, as in the case of a spring-loaded bicycle chain tensioner, the tension ...

Usage examples of tensioner.

Several tight spirals by Grenier brought them near enough to a stale position that Quantrill could ease off the cable tensioner and hit the quick-release when his feet neared the rank grass that invaded from nearby prairies.

I failed - I'm not patient enough - but I learned some of the technique and the names of the picks: the half-round and round feelers, the rakes and diamonds and double diamonds, the readers, extractors, mailboxes, flat levers and tensioners, circulars and points.