stretcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃə/
enpr: strĕchʹər
ipa: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈstɹet͡ʃə/
rhymes: -ɛtʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stretchers
Etymology: From stretch + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, stretches.
examples: text: This done, he sank on to a stretcher, and glanced meditatively about the room.
ref: 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XIV, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 153:
text: 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.
ref: 1953, H.A.R. Gibb, J.H. Kramers, “Djināza”, in Concise Encyclopedia of Islam, E.J. Brill, published 1995, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 90, column 1:
text: 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.
ref: 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC:
text: There, characteristically, he refused to be carried on a stretcher, saying he was too heavy for nurses. He walked in with their support.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 48:
glosses: A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
glosses: A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
examples: text: The quoins should be two feet long and one foot broad on the bed, and regularly built, stretcher and header alternately
ref: 1857, John Ewart, The Agriculturist's Assistant:
coordinate_terms: header
glosses: A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.
topics: architecture
glosses: A piece of timber used in building.
glosses: A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1884, J. W. Collins, Bulletin of the United States National Museum: Great International Fisheries Exhibition, page 703:
text: 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.
ref: 1900, Alfred Edward Thomas Watson, The Young Sportsman, page 479:
text: 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.
ref: 1909, Samuel McSkimin, The History and Antiquities of the County of the Town of Carrickfergus, from the Earliest Records Till 1839, page 362:
text: Each rower's feet are set in shoes which are secured in the boat in a stretcher (or foot board) set into a fixed position to suit the length of the rower's legs.
ref: 2003, J. Alswang, The South African Dictionary of Sport, page 203:
text: […] these seem to indicate a thwart, foot-timber (stretcher), thole-pin combination for rowing.
ref: 2014, Sean Mcgrail, Ancient Boats in North-West Europe, page 80:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A board against which a rower places his feet.
glosses: 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.
examples: text: When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher, with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: A penis, especially a long penis.
Synonyms: sense: medical litter
word: litter
sense: medical litter
word: ambulance
sense: medical litter
word: dooly
Derived terms: stretcher-bearer
stretcher bond
stretcher case
stretcher match
X-stretcher