STRETCHER
\stɹˈɛt͡ʃə], \stɹˈɛtʃə], \s_t_ɹ_ˈɛ_tʃ_ə]\
Definitions of STRETCHER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a stone that forms the top of wall or building
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a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
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a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
By Princeton University
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a stone that forms the top of wall or building
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a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
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a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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One who, or that which, stretches.
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A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
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A piece of timber used in building.
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A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
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A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
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A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
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An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
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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.
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An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
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The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
By Oddity Software
By James Champlin Fernald
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One who, or that which, extends or draws out; a frame, usually covered with canvas, for carrying the sick, wounded, or dead, as from the field of battle; a footboard in rowing.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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n. One who or that which stretches:-a brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall ;-a narrow piece of plank for rowers to set their feet against;-a litter or frame for carrying sick, wounded, or dead persons.
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