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spineboard
English
Noun
spineboard (plural spineboards)
- Alternative form of spine board
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stretcher
English
Etymology
stretch +? -er
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?st??t??/
- (US) enPR: str?ch??r, IPA(key): /?st??t??/
- Rhymes: -?t??(r)
Noun
stretcher (plural stretchers)
- 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 side exposed (compare header).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gwilt to this entry?)
- (architecture) A piece of timber used in building.
- (slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
- (nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.
- (nautical) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and gripped.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Dana to this entry?)
- 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.
- An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
- (obsolete) A penis, especially a long penis.
Derived terms
- stretcher-bearer
- stretcher case
Translations
Verb
stretcher (third-person singular simple present stretchers, present participle stretchering, simple past and past participle stretchered)
- (transitive) To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.
Translations
References
stretcher in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- restretch
References
- (a lie): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English stretcher.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: stret?cher
Noun
stretcher m (plural stretchers, diminutive stretchertje n)
- stretcher
Synonyms
- veldbed
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