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Stretcher means Someone or something that stretches..
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/ˈstɹɛt͡ʃə/ · noun
Someone or something that stretches..
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.
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.
The quoins should be two feet long and one foot broad on the bed, and regularly built, stretcher and header alternately
The jointed stretcher is used in place of the sectional bottom board, with two sideboards, one each side of stretcher. The boat set up this way only weights 20 pounds, and makes a very convenient boat for trout-fishing, duck-hunting, or exploring in ponds or streams where the paddle will do as well as the oars.
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.
Use stretcher when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stretcher means Someone or something that stretches..
Common synonyms include litter, ambulance, dooly, capstone.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
This done, he sank on to a stretcher, and glanced meditatively about the room.
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