Sentence:  It was thickly settled by fifteen thousand citizens and laid out into pig infested streets , mostly around the Battery , <WSD>going</WSD> bravely north to Wall Street , but giving up and becoming fields and farms in the region of Harlem Heights . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point