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Stretcher   /strˈɛtʃər/   Listen
noun
Stretcher  n.  
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.
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.
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.





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"Stretcher" Quotes from Famous Books



... Stratagem ruzo. Strategy militarto. Stratify tavoli. Stratum tavolo. Straw pajlo. Strawberry frago. Stray erarigxi. Streak streko. Stream rivereto. Street strato. Strength forteco. Strengthen plifortigi. Strenuous energia. Stress forto, premo—eco. Stretch strecxi. Stretcher portilo. Strew disjxeti. Strict severa. Stride pasxegi. Strident sibla sono. Strife malpaco, disputo. Strike frapi. Strike (of workmen) striki. Strike (coins) presi, monopresi. Strike up singing ekkanti. Strike out (writing) surstreki. Striking surpriza, tusxanta, ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... a Curtain Frame—Fold the lace curtain double lengthwise; then pin it on a tightly stretched line with many clothes-pins and slip a clean pole inside the folded curtain. This stretches the curtain satisfactorily and saves considerable time and money when a curtain stretcher is not available. ...
— Fowler's Household Helps • A. L. Fowler
... feet are so swelled you couldn't start my boots with a fence stretcher. They's no use both of us ...
— Partners of Chance • Henry Herbert Knibbs
... or two later, Dora, who could not sleep from the effects of fatigue and emotion, was lying in her uncomfortable stretcher-bed, thinking with a sort of incredulity of all that had passed since David's telegram had reached her the day before, or puzzling herself to know how her employers could possibly spare her for another three or four days' holiday, when she was startled by some recurrent ...
— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... exclusion of any that might threaten Europe—glanced up and beheld his neighbour Penhaligon's children, Young 'Bert and 'Beida (Zobeida), approach by the street from the Quay bearing between them a stretcher, composed of two broken paddles and part of an old fishing-net, and on the stretcher, covered by a tattered pilot-jack, a small form—their brother 'Biades (Alcibiades), aged four. ...
— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)


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