different between stretcher vs logroll

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)

1. One who, or that which, 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 side exposed (compare header).

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6. (architecture) A piece of timber used in building.
7. (slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
8. (nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.
9. (nautical) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and gripped.

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10. 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.
11. An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
12. (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)

1. (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)

1. stretcher

Synonyms

• veldbed

English

Etymology

Back-formation from logrolling.

Verb

logroll (third-person singular simple present logrolls, present participle logrolling, simple past and past participle logrolled)

1. (intransitive) To exchange political favours.
2. (transitive) To combine legislative items, either or both of which might fail on its own, into a single bill that is more likely to pass.

3. To roll a log in a body of water, while balancing on it; to birl.
4. To move like rolling logs.
5. (transitive) To safely move (a body) in an emergency (medical) situation, tilting them up, then laying them on a transport surface.

Derived terms

• logroller

Noun

logroll (plural logrolls)

1. (emergency medicine) A method of moving a patient, rolling them onto their side, and later onto a transport method such as a tarp, spineboard, or stretcher.