Meaning of Stretcher | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Someone or something that stretches.
2. A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
3. A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
4. A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
5. A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.
6. A piece of timber used in building.
7. A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
   slang
8. A board against which a rower places his feet.
9. 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.
10. A penis, especially a long penis.
    obsolete

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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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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”

Fanny Hill

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