Stretcher

Quick meaning: Stretcher is a noun meaning Someone or something that stretches.

Meaning

Someone or something that stretches.

More Meanings

1. A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
2. A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
3. A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
4. A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.
5. (architecture) A piece of timber used in building.
6. (nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.
7. (slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.

Example Sentences

This done, he sank on to a stretcher, and glanced meditatively about the room.

The quoins should be two feet long and one foot broad on the bed, and regularly built, stretcher and header alternately

There, characteristically, he refused to be carried on a stretcher, saying he was too heavy for nurses. He walked in with their support.

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.

Word Forms

• stretchers
• stretchering
• stretchered

Synonyms for stretcher

Depending on context, synonyms include litter, ambulance, dooly, capstone.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include capstone, quick, quickly, hurry, fast, detachment.

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