stretcher

Meanings

Plural: stretchers

Noun

• a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
• a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
• a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
• a stone that forms the top of wall or building
• One who, or that which, stretches.
• A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
• A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
• A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
• A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.
• A piece of timber used in building.
• A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
• A board against which a rower places his feet.
• 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.
• A penis, especially a long penis.

Verb

• To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.

Synonyms

ambulance, capstone, copestone, coping stone, dooly, litter