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stretcher

noun
/ˈstɹɛt͡ʃə/UK/ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɚ/CA/ˈstɹet͡ʃə/

Etymology

From stretch + -er.

  1. derived from *(s)treg-✻
  2. inherited from *strakkjan✻ — “to stretch, make taut or tight”
  3. inherited from streċċan — “to stretch, hold out, extend, spread out, prostrate”
  4. inherited from strecchen
  5. formed as stretcher — “stretch + -er”

Definitions

  1. Someone or something that stretches.

  2. 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.
    • After all this has been done, the funeral-procession begins. The stretcher is borne to the burialplace by male persons, even when the deceased is a woman; this work is to be done carefully.
    • The goal also cost the Blues the services of Luiz, who was injured in attempting to clear and was taken off on a stretcher and replaced by Gary Cahill.

  3. 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.
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A device to stretch shoes or gloves.

    2. 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

    3. A piece of timber used in building.

    4. A lie

      A lie; an overstretching of the truth.

    5. A board against which a rower places his feet.

      • Directly the oar has been disengaged from the water, all pressure on the stretcher ceases, and the strain of the recovery of the body is eased by a slight pull with the feet on the straps of the stretcher.
      • Betwean each beam of the boat is also fastened a piece of timber called a stretcher or footspur, against which they place their feet when rowing, to enable them to have a more complete command of their oar.

    6. One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other…

      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.

    7. A penis, especially a long penis.

    8. 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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA