1. A litter, usually of canvas stretched over a frame, used to transport the sick, wounded, or dead.
2. one that stretches, such as the wooden framework on which canvas is stretched for an oil painting.
3. A usually horizontal tie beam or brace serving to support or extend a framework.
4. A brick or stone laid parallel to the face of a wall so that only its long side is showing.

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).
6. A piece of timber used in building.
7. A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
8. A board against which a rower places his feet.
9. A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and gripped.
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. A penis, especially a long penis.
13. to carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.

1. one who, or that which, stretches.
2. A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
3. A piece of timber used in building.
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5. A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
6. A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
7. A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
8. an overstretching of the truth; a lie.
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. an instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
11. the frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.

1. one who or that which stretches or, expands.
2. in masonry, a brick or stone laid horizontally with its length in the direction of the face of the wall, as distinguished from a header, which is laid lengthwise across the thickness of the wall, so that its small head or end is seen in the external face of the wall. see cut under inbond.
3. one of the cylindrical rails between the legs of a chair; a round.
4. in cabinet-making, a low shelf serving as a brace or stay to the legs of a table, and roomy enough to hold a vase, a basket of flowers, or other ornament.
5. in carpentry, a tie-timber in a frame.
6. nautical, a narrow piece of plank placed across a boat for the rowers to set their feet against; also, a cross-piece placed between a boat's sides to keep them apart when the boat is hoisted up and griped.
7. A light, simple litter, without inclosure or top, upon which a dead body or a wounded person can be carried: so called because generally composed of canvas stretched on a frame, or because the body is stretched out upon it. such frames, covered with canvas, are often used as beds, as in camping.
8. A flat board on which corpses are stretched or laid out preparatory to coffining.
9. in angling: the leader at the extreme end of the line.
10. the tail-fly; the fly that is fastened to the cast called the stretcher; a stretcher-fly. see tail-fly (under fly) and whip.
11. A statement which overstretches the truth; a lie.
12. in carriage-building, same as strainer, 4.
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1. a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
2. a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
3. a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
4. a stone that forms the top of wall or building