protract

verb5

1. •
   To draw out; to extend, especially in duration.

   • Doubtless he shrives this woman to her smock; Else ne'er could he so long protract his speech. — 1591
2. •
   To extend; to protrude.

   • A cat can protract and retract its claws.
3. •
   To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer.

   • […] Let us bury him, And not protract with admiration what Is now due debt. To the grave! — 1611
4. •
   To use a protractor.
5. •
   To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.

   • This is a synopsis of our marches, which, protracted on Burckhardt’s map, gives an error of ten miles. — 1856