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Stretcher
Definitions
- 1 Someone or something that stretches.
- 2 a stone that forms the top of wall or building wordnet
- 3 A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
"This done, he sank on to a stretcher, and glanced meditatively about the room."
- 4 a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles wordnet
- 5 A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
"A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box."
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- 6 a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it wordnet
- 7 A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
- 8 a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting wordnet
- 9 A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.
"The quoins should be two feet long and one foot broad on the bed, and regularly built, stretcher and header alternately"
- 10 A piece of timber used in building.
- 11 A lie; an overstretching of the truth. slang
- 12 A board against which a rower places his feet.
"The jointed stretcher is used in place of the sectional bottom board, with two sideboards, one each side of stretcher. The boat set up this way only weights 20 pounds, and makes a very convenient boat for trout-fishing, duck-hunting, or exploring in ponds or streams where the paddle will do as well as the oars."
- 13 One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
- 14 A penis, especially a long penis. obsolete
"When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood"
- 1 To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher. transitive
"Claire Elise Tisdall, a volunteer nurse working in London, watched as a soldier was strechered past her one night."
Etymology
From stretch + -er.
From stretch + -er.
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