stretcher
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: architecture
nautical
transport
Etymology: Etymology tree
English stretch
English -er
English stretcher
From stretch + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stretchers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stretchers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stretchering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stretchered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stretchered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that stretches.
pos: noun
gloss: A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
pos: noun
gloss: A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.
pos: noun
examples: The quoins should be two feet long and one foot broad on the bed, and regularly built, stretcher and header alternately
gloss: A piece of timber used in building.
pos: noun
gloss: A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A board against which a rower places his feet.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
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.
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.
[…] these seem to indicate a thwart, foot-timber (stretcher), thole-pin combination for rowing.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
gloss: A penis, especially a long penis.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: 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
gloss: To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Claire Elise Tisdall, a volunteer nurse working in London, watched as a soldier was strechered past her one night.
But with Germany’s Olaf Scholz and France’s Emmanuel Macron facing red cards at home, Spain’s Pedro Sánchez briefly stretchered off[…], Giorgia Meloni – post-fascist poster girl turned star centre-forward of the new right – is shooting at an open goal.
Derived words: stretcher-bearer
stretcher bond
stretcher case
stretcherless
stretcherman
stretcher match
stretcherwoman
X-stretcher
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