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Webster 1913 Edition
Stretcher
Stretch′er
,Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, stretches.
2.
(Masonry)
A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
Gwilt.
3.
(Arch.)
A piece of timber used in building.
4.
(Naut.)
(a)
A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
(b)
A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
Dana.
5.
A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
6.
An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
[Slang]
7.
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.
8.
An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
9.
The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
Webster 1828 Edition
Stretcher
STRETCHER
, n.1.
He or that which stretches.2.
A term in bricklaying.3.
A piece of timber in building.4.
A narrow piece of plank placed across a boat for the rowers to set their feet against.Definition 2024
stretcher
stretcher
English
Noun
stretcher (plural stretchers)
- One who, or that which, stretches.
- A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
- A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
- A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
- A brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)
- (architecture) A piece of timber used in building.
- (slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
- (nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.
- (nautical) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and gripped.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dana to this entry?)
- 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.
- An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
- (obsolete) A ****, especially a long ****.
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3
- When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage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
- 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3
Derived terms
Translations
simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person
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frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting
device to stretch shoes or gloves
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brick laid with the longest side exposed
Verb
stretcher (third-person singular simple present stretchers, present participle stretchering, simple past and past participle stretchered)
- (transitive) To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.
Translations
to carry on a stretcher
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Dutch
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: stret‧cher
Etymology
Borrowing from English stretcher.
Noun
stretcher m (plural stretchers, diminutive stretchertje n)