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Stretcher   /strˈɛtʃər/   Listen
Stretcher

noun
1.
A wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting.
2.
A mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it.
3.
A litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles.
4.
A stone that forms the top of wall or building.  Synonyms: capstone, copestone, coping stone.


Stretch

adjective
1.
Having an elongated seating area.
2.
Easily stretched.



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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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