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stretcher

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1. stretcher - Noun

2. stretcher - Adjective

3. stretcher - Verb

Meaning

A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.

A piece of timber used in building.

A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.

A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.

A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.

An overstretching of the truth; a lie.

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.

The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.

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I came to you a crossbearer on a stretcher and an outcast from humanity, and I went from you a conqueror of life. Halldór Laxness

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher. Oliver Reed

After a couple of minutes, Bouwmeester was taken out on a stretcher through a tunnel next to the Blues bench and brought to a hospital. Source: Internet

An ambulance was earlier seen taking Navalny from the hospital, after masked medics lifted a stretcher carrying Navalny into the ambulance. Source: Internet

Amfortas arrives, borne on a stretcher by Knights of the Grail. Source: Internet

A picture taken on August 10, 2019 shows medics with a stretcher near the al-Noor Islamic Center mosque where a gunman armed with multiple weapons went on a shooting spree in the Oslo suburb of Baerum. Source: Internet

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