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stretcher

UK /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃə/US /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɚ/

noun 11
verb 1
forms 3

noun11

Someone or something that stretches.
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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. — 1936
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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. — 1938
A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
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.
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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 — 1857
A horizontal bar joining the legs of a chair or a table to provide support and stability.
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A board against which a rower places his feet.
- […] these seem to indicate a thwart, foot-timber (stretcher), thole-pin combination for rowing. — 2014
A piece of timber used in building.
(slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
(slang, no longer used) A penis, especially a long penis.

verb1

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To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.
- Claire Elise Tisdall, a volunteer nurse working in London, watched as a soldier was strechered past her one night. — 2022

forms

stretchered · stretchering · stretchers

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