stretchern.
/ˈstrɛtʃə/, U.S. /ˈstrɛtʃər/ I. One who or something which stretches.
1. One who stretches; spec. a worker employed in various industries to stretch fabrics.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > worker performing process or spec. task > [noun] > who stretches or shrinks
stretcherc1420
shrinker1921
c1420 J. Lydgate Assembly of Gods 674 There were bosters, braggars, & brybores, Praters, fasers, strechers, & wrythers.
?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxi. 135 Yet his hopes enstild His strength, the stretcher of Vlysses string.
1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1829) II. ii. iv. 126 When things are stretched too far, they break to the hurt of the stretcher.
1784 J. Brown Compend. Hist. Brit. Churches I. 175 Arminian stretchers of the royal prerogative, were caressed and preferred.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. vii. 170 The scraper of chins hath no great love for the stretcher of throats.
1861 Internat. Exhib. 1862, Alph. Lists Trades 39 Stretchers.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 67.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 60 Woollen Cloth Manufacture:..Stretcher.
?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 54 Carver, Gilder:..Stretcher (Canvas).
2. An exaggerated story or yarn; chiefly euphemistically or jocularly, a lie.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [noun] > action of exaggerating > instance of
overreacher1589
reacher1613
overtruth1638
stretcher1674
stretch1711
high-flyer1776
windy1933
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > a false or foolish tale > [noun] > of an exaggerated kind
a tale (also gest, song, etc.) of Robin Hoodc1400
tale of a tub1532
Canterbury tale or story?a1550
romanza1622
romance1638
onea1642
Robin Hood tale1653
cock-and-bull story1670
stretcher1674
whid1794
fish-story1819
snake story1826
screamer1831
twister1834
ráiméis1835
Munchausen1840
skyscraper1840
Munchausenism1848
cock1851
snake yarn1891
furphy1916
fanny1930
the old ackamarackus1933
windy1933
1674 J. Patrick Refl. Devotions Rom. Church 416 Any story of a Cock and a Bull, will serve their turns to found a Festival upon,..though the circumstances are never so improbable. This of removing the Rock is a pretty stretcher.
1677 S. Herne Domus Carthusiana v. 29 Now listen to a visible Stretcher.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Stretcher, an untruth; a softer term for a falsehood.
1840 E. E. Napier Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands II. vi. 215 This may, perhaps, be a stretcher; but, however, it is certain that [etc.].
1855 J. Ogilvie Suppl. Imperial Dict. Stretcher, a notorious lie. (Local.)
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat xii. 196 When the pipes are lit, and the boys are telling stretchers about the dangers they have passed through.
II. Technical senses.† 3. Falconry. A toe of a hawk or falcon. Obsolete.
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the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > [noun] > family Falconidae > genus Falco (falcon) > parts of
single1486
stretcher1486
manteau1852
the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > hawk > parts of > toe or claw
pouncea1475
key of the foot1486
single1486
stretcher1486
pounce joint1614
pouncer1704
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Hawking a viii The Clees that are uppon the medyll strecheris ye shall call the loong Sengles.
1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 55 She hath no great scales vpon hir legges, unlesse it be a fewe that beginne behinde the three stretchers.
1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation ii. 123 The Haggard... A large wide Foot, with slender Stretchers.
1674 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation ii. 124 Of the Barbary-Falcon..with long Talons and Stretchers.
4.
a. An instrument or appliance for expanding material, making it taut, removing its wrinkles, and the like.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering dimensions > [noun] > stretcher
strainer1527
stretcher1532
1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 800/1 Stretchyng oute hys wryncles with the stretching them vppon the stretcher or tenter hookes of the crosse.
1774 Brit. Patent 1062 (1856) 2 [The silk strings] are then to be put on a stretcher that they may dry in a proper tension.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 382 The cotton, or..roving, is taken out and wound upon a bobbin, and..carried to a machine called a stretcher.
1838 in Newton's London Jrnl. Conjoined Ser. (1840) 16 65 Having determined the figure or design to be produced, the cloth..is spread..in lengths..over a stretcher of canvas, which stretcher is placed in a frame.
1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5130 Marking-ink, linen stretcher, &c., with specimens.
b. A frame upon which an artist's canvas is spread and drawn tight by means of corner-pieces or wedges. See also quot. 1875.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > stretcher
stretcher1847
chassis1934
1847 Man. Oil-painting 48 There are, however, certain sizes [of canvas] which are always kept on hand at the shops, ready mounted on stretchers.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lx. 177 The rent canvas fell and fluttered upon the stretcher.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stretcher, a corner~piece for distending a canvas frame.
c. Leather Manufacturing. (a) = stake n.1 5b; (b) a hand-tool used in finishing leather.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for stretching hides or leather
softening iron1839
stretcher1839
stock-stone1875
stretcher-bar1883
stretch-bench1897
stretching-board1976
society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for finishing leather
stretcher1872
kid-brush1885
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 767 [The skins] are dried with the fleece outermost,..and are finished upon the stretcher.
1872 Saddlers' Gaz. 1 Dec. 212/1 The hide..is then turned over and the hair side moistened with water and rubbed with a copper stretcher until it is nearly dry.
d. An instrument for easing the fit of boots, gloves, hats, etc.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] > sit or hang of > instrument for easing fit of
stretcher1858
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Stretcher,..an instrument for easing boots or gloves.
1885 Harper's Mag. Feb. 449/2 She was manipulating the..pair of stretchers.
5. A bar serving as a stay or brace.
a. A buttress in masonry; a tie-beam in joinery; in trench timbering, a temporary strut.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > beams or supports
sillc897
sole-tree1527
spur1529
brace1530
rance1574
strut1587
ground pin1632
ground-plate1663
strut-beam1668
wale-piece1739
strutting-beam1753
wale1754
stretcher1774
tie1793
tie-beam1823
strutting1833
lattice frame1838
tie-bolt1838
tie rod1839
brace-rod1844
web1845
box girder1849
plate girder1849
lattice beam1850
lattice girder1852
girder1853
twister1875
under-girder1875
truss-beam1877
raker1880
wind-bracing1890
portal strut1894
stirrup1909
knee-brace1912
tee-beam1930
tee section1963
binder-
1774 W. Gostling Walk Canterbury xxxi. 136 There seems to have been some failing in the south-west pillar, and..care has been..taken to prevent any ill consequences of it by adding stretchers of stone-work on all sides to stiffen it... The stretchers are very substantial and deep walls of stone pierced in such patterns as make them..an ornament: They are carried on arches from this pillar to two other principal ones.
a1805 J. Robison Syst. Mech. Philos. (1822) I. 669 The struts which carry the king-post spring from those points of the stretcher where it rests on the strut below.
1869 C. Knight Mechanician 67 The class of columns represented by Fig. 130 are used also as stays, and in the horizontal position; they are in such cases named stretchers, and should be forged as nearly as possible to the intended form.
b. A bar or rod used as a tie or brace in the framework of an article; esp. a cross-piece between the handles of a plough or the legs of a chair.
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the world > space > relative position > fact or condition of being transverse > [noun] > anything lying transversely > cross-piece, -bar, or -beam
slote1485
crossbar1562
bail1575
cross-beam1594
traverse1604
bint1629
cross-yard1634
crown beam1776
cross-tie1813
cross-rail1836
stretcher1844
spall1895
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 413 The stretchers which support and retain the handles [of the plough] at their due distance apart.
1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. 725 There is a central rod or stretcher [to the frame saw], to which are mortised two end pieces that have a slight power of rotation on the stretcher.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 196 The ordinary [Embroidery] Frames are made of four pieces of wood, the two upright pieces of which are called Bars,..and two horizontal pieces, called Stretchers.
1902 [see stretcher-bar n. at Compounds 2]. 1905 C. G. Harper Oxf. Road I. 125 Four men thus working will ‘get out’ the timber [beech] and turn it into legs or rails—‘stretchers’ as they call them in the trade—at the rate of four gross a day.
c. A bar which keeps apart the traces between every two horses in a team.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces > attachments for
norsela1300
pipe?1309
tug1417
tug-hook1417
spreadbat1775
trace-ring1795
trace-tug1795
spreader1810
cock eye1819
stretcher1828
tug-buckle1851
roller1856
piping1875
tug-carrier1877
tug-slide1877
trace-iron1902
trace-loop-
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2)
1852 C. W. Hoskyns Talpa (1854) xvi. 136 The fore-horse..turned suddenly..into the high~road, grazing Mr. Greening's unspurred foot with the point of the leader's stretcher.
d. Nautical. (See quot. 1867.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > piece to keep sides of boat apart when hoisted
stretcher1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Stretchers... Also cross~pieces placed between a boat's sides to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
e. Mining. A prop or sprag.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > prop or support
crown tree1449
punch1462
prop1613
slider1653
sole1653
yoking1653
stow-blade1681
pit-bar1708
fork1747
head tree1747
studdle1758
lock piece1778
pit-prop1794
puncheon1815
stow-fork1824
plank tubbing1839
sprag1841
gib1847
chock1853
Tom1858
bratticing1866
pack1867
breastboard1877
brattice1881
wall-plate1881
strap1883
stretcher1883
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 244.
6. A bar or rod used to expand and to keep expanded something collapsible.
a. A jointed or sliding rod used to spread the head or legs of a thing, esp. each of the rods pivoted at the ends to the ribs and the sleeve which slides upon the stick of an umbrella.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting rod > stretcher or spreader
spreader1797
stretcher1833
outstretcher1854
spreader1865
1833 Reg. Deb. Congr. U.S. 22nd Congr. 1 Sess. App. p. xli [Duty] on square wire used for the manufacture of stretchers for umbrellas..twelve per centum ad valorem.
1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 136 Whalebone is now principally used for the stretchers for umbrellas.
1857 Repertory Patent Inventions 29 511 Samuel Fox,..for heating..ribs and stretchers of umbrellas and parasols.
1866 Brit. Patent 1285 1 For tripod stands I employ three elongating stretchers converging to a point in the middle (when the legs are spread); they are formed of brass tubes sliding one within the other.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stretcher... 5. (Vehicle.) A jointed rod by whose extension the carriage bows are separated and expanded, so as to spread the canopy or hood.
b. A stick or each of the sticks used to keep a fishing net expanded.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > other parts of net
foot rope1750
stretcher1823
bridle1828
foot line1845
otter-boardc1870
1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers II. iv. 59 Benjamin prided himself greatly on his skill in throwing the net... At length a loud plash in the water, as he threw away the ‘staff’, or ‘stretcher’..announced that the boat was returning.
1884 G. F. Braithwaite Salmonidæ Westmorland vi. 23 Lighter sticks or stretchers are attached to the top and bottom cord which keep the net extended.
c. A piece of wood or metal used to spread the clews of a hammock. (In recent dictionaries.)
7. A foot-rest in a rowing-boat. (See quots. 1769, 1898.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > foot-rest for rower
stretcher1609
boat-stretcher1850
1609 T. Dekker Rauens Almanacke sig. B2 Any Sculer, whose legs get his liuing by a Stretcher, will not deny it.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 510 They tug at ev'ry Oar; and ev'ry Stretcher bends.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Stretcher, a sort of staff fixed athwart the bottom of a boat, for the rower to place his feet against, in order to communicate a greater effort to his oar.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xii. 209 Swinburne appeared..followed by the rest of the boats' crew, armed with the boats' stretchers.
1898 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport II. 298/1 (Rowing) Stretcher, a board placed slopingly at a right angle across the boat in front of the oarsman, upon which he braces his feet.
8. A kind of litter composed of two poles separated by crossbars upon which canvas is stretched, used to transport sick or wounded persons.
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the world > health and disease > healing > transport for the sick or injured > [noun] > stretcher
barrowc1300
cabin1587
shutter1843
stretcher1845
Neil Robertson1941
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > conveyance carried by person or animal > [noun] > litter > for sick or wounded
litterc1330
stretcher1845
1845 Ann. Reg. 380/1 After the body was discovered Fletcher went for the stretcher.
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 668/2 The ambulance conveyances authorised for use in the British army are..1. Conveyances carried by the hands of bearers, called stretchers; 2. Conveyances wheeled by men, wheeled stretchers, [etc.].
1892 A. Bierce In Midst of Life 129 Two were hospital attendants and carried a stretcher.
9.
a. A folding bed or bedstead chiefly for camp or hospital use; also (chiefly Australian and New Zealand), a camp-bed used as a spare bed in a house, etc. Also plural, the trestles for a bed.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > parts of bed > [noun] > trestles
stretcher1841
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling
trussing bed1398
letacamp1494
trussing bedstead1535
truss-bed1541
field bed1567
camp-bed1690
camp cot1785
camp-bedstead1825
stretcher-bed1842
stretcher1893
stretcher-bedstead1895
safari bed1936
zedbed1954
Z-bed1973
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling > folding bed for house
turn-down bed1840
wall bed1913
Murphy bed1918
stretcher1943
1841 F. Marryat Joseph Rushbrook III. ix. 148 They sat down on the stretchers upon which the bed had been laid [in the prison cell] during the night.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 56 He gave me..a stretcher to sleep on in one of the empty chambers.
1943 Amer. Speech 18 86 A common article of furniture [in New Zealand] is a stretcher—a folding camp bed or cot, often used to provide temporary sleeping accommodation in a house.
1974 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 18 May 21/1 All summer cottages in those days had two or three camp cots or ‘stretchers’, with flat wire springs and small mattresses, which could be folded up and stuffed under beds for use when unexpected or surplus guests arrived.
1980 B. Mason Solo 30 Tim, I got the stretcher out. It's quite sound. Needs a dust, that's all. I'm giving you three blankets. That should be enough.
b. A flat board on which a corpse is laid out preparatory to coffining. ? Scottish.
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [noun] > laying out > board on which
stretching-board1825
stretcher1850
1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. ; and in some later Dicts.
10. Something laid lengthways.
a. Building. A brick or stone laid with its length in the direction of the wall. Also Fortification, a sod laid in a similar position.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick
hirne-stonec1000
parpen1252
coin1350
coin-stone1350
angler1365
parpal1369
corner-stonea1382
cunye1387
tuss1412
quoin1532
table stone1554
quoining1562
copestone1567
ground-stone1567
lock bandc1582
quinyie1588
perpender1611
whelmer1618
parpen stone1633
capstone1665
headera1684
through1683
quoin-stone1688
stretcher1693
closer1700
bed-stone1723
coping-brick1725
girder1726
footstone1728
heading brick1731
bossage1736
lewis-hole1740
shoulder1744
headstone1745
pawl1753
tail-bond1776
coping-stone1778
slocking-stone1778
throughband1794
through-stone1797
stretching-bond1805
core1823
keystone1823
tail-binder1828
stretching-stone1833
header brick1841
coign1843
pawl-stone1844
bay-stone1845
bonder1845
pillar-stone1854
bond-piece1862
stretcher-brick1867
toothing-stone1875
bond-stone1879
pierpoint1891
jumper1904
tush1905
padstone1944
1693 Coll. Improvem. Husbandry & Trade No. 74. ⁋3 A Brick-wall of a Foot and half thick is commonly made by Stretchers and Headers.
1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 22 If the Header on one side of the Wall, toothed as much as the Stretcher on the other side, it would be a stronger Toothing.
1725 W. Halfpenny Art of Sound Building 51 The Course..consists of two Streachers and one Header.
1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §66 The long pieces or Stretchers were retained between two Headers or bond pieces.
1834 J. S. Macaulay Treat. Field Fortification 59 The third kind of revetment is made with sods of unequal sizes, called headers and stretchers.
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 430/2 The front is to be of..stone, laid header and stretcher alternately.
1884 Milit. Engin. I. ii. 73 Making good the interval between parapet and gabions with filled sandbags, header, and stretcher.
b. ? A horizontal branch (see quots.).
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the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [noun] > bough or branch > horizontal
stretcher1733
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming 162 Great Plantations of Hazel, that..are also of vast Service to the Thatcher, by its Stretchers, Sprays, and Withs.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. (at cited word) In ‘making’ a hedge certain growing stakes are chopped half through, laid down lengthwise on the hedge, and fastened down by a crook. Earth is then thrown upon them, and they root afresh. These are the stretchers.
11. Angling. The artificial fly at the extremity of a casting line to which two or more flies are attached.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > one of a number on line
dropper1829
bob-fly1832
dropper-fly1834
bobber1837
stretcher1837
drop-fly1870
stretcher-fly1883
tail-fly1883
1837 J. Kirkbride Northern Angler 3 The first dropper ought to be about a yard from the stretcher, or tail-fly.
1885 Outing Oct. 77/1 The trout..were lusty, vigorous fellows, and with a ‘Silver Doctor’ as a stretcher, I managed to forget myself..completely.
1938 W. C. Platts Mod. Trout Fishing vii. 59 Two flies—a stretcher, or tail fly, and one dropper—is rather risky.
1963 A. N. Marston Newnes Encycl. Angling 249/1 Stretcher, the bottom fly on a wet-fly cast made up of two or more flies. Usually called a tail fly.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations. C1. General attributive. (In sense 5b.)
stretcher-bolt n.
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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 420 The right handle [of the plough] is formed in one bar,..and it is connected to the left handle by the stretcher-bolts.
stretcher-tube n.
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1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 668 The beam and handles are further connected by stretcher-tubes and bolts.
C2.
stretcher-bar n. (a) the bar which is set across a level as a support for a rock-drill; (b) Leather Manufacturing an appliance for stretching hides transversely; (c) (see quot. 1902).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for stretching hides or leather
softening iron1839
stretcher1839
stock-stone1875
stretcher-bar1883
stretch-bench1897
stretching-board1976
society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > boring tool > for boring in the ground > parts or attachments
topit1839
brake1849
tiger1864
bore-log1870
brace-head1875
stretcher-bar1883
sabot1884
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > framework > specific part of
chorda1877
stretcher-bar1883
redundant1953
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 448/1 In driving a level with the Darlington drill it is usual to fix the stretcher bar horizontally across the level so as to command the upper part of the face.
1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) xli. 544 A stretcher-bar of suitable form for stretching the hides transversely.
1902 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. (ed. 3) Stretcher Bar, or Stretcher, a long bar or bolt shouldered near each end, and used for the purpose of maintaining A frames and side frames at a fixed distance apart and perfectly rigid.
stretcher-bearer n. (see quot. 1876).
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > military paramedics
orderly1778
hospital steward1856
stretcher-man1874
stretcher-bearer1876
stretcher-party1884
hospital corps1899
hospital corpsman1901
sanitar1916
corpsman1941
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 412/1 Stretcher Bearers, men..whose special duty..is to carry the wounded from the battle-field, to the ambulance wagons.
stretcher-bed n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling
trussing bed1398
letacamp1494
trussing bedstead1535
truss-bed1541
field bed1567
camp-bed1690
camp cot1785
camp-bedstead1825
stretcher-bed1842
stretcher1893
stretcher-bedstead1895
safari bed1936
zedbed1954
Z-bed1973
1842 C. G. F. Gore Fascination 21 In a gloomy inner room stood a common stretcher-bed.
1888 Daily News 5 June 6/2 The life of the emergency men in camp..is luxurious... They have stretcher beds and blankets to cover them.
stretcher-bedstead n. a folding bed, chiefly for camp or barrack use (cf. 9).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > folding bed for camp or travelling
trussing bed1398
letacamp1494
trussing bedstead1535
truss-bed1541
field bed1567
camp-bed1690
camp cot1785
camp-bedstead1825
stretcher-bed1842
stretcher1893
stretcher-bedstead1895
safari bed1936
zedbed1954
Z-bed1973
1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Price-list 442 Barrack Furniture and Camp Equipment. Folding Stretcher Bedstead, Iron frame and legs.
stretcher-brick n. (see 10a).
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick
hirne-stonec1000
parpen1252
coin1350
coin-stone1350
angler1365
parpal1369
corner-stonea1382
cunye1387
tuss1412
quoin1532
table stone1554
quoining1562
copestone1567
ground-stone1567
lock bandc1582
quinyie1588
perpender1611
whelmer1618
parpen stone1633
capstone1665
headera1684
through1683
quoin-stone1688
stretcher1693
closer1700
bed-stone1723
coping-brick1725
girder1726
footstone1728
heading brick1731
bossage1736
lewis-hole1740
shoulder1744
headstone1745
pawl1753
tail-bond1776
coping-stone1778
slocking-stone1778
throughband1794
through-stone1797
stretching-bond1805
core1823
keystone1823
tail-binder1828
stretching-stone1833
header brick1841
coign1843
pawl-stone1844
bay-stone1845
bonder1845
pillar-stone1854
bond-piece1862
stretcher-brick1867
toothing-stone1875
bond-stone1879
pierpoint1891
jumper1904
tush1905
padstone1944
1867 G. M. Musgrave Nooks & Corners Old France I. 80 A perilous mode of scamping off their work, which among fifty stretcher bricks, exhibited not two headers.
stretcher case n. an injured or sick person needing conveyance on a stretcher.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > needing conveyance
stretcher case1917
litter case1944
wheelchair patient1970
wheelie1977
wheelchair wounded1982
1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings v. 118 On this occasion there was good reason for the delay, as we ceded the right of way to a hospital ship and waited while a procession of ambulance cars drove along the quay and unloaded their stretcher cases.
1978 R. V. Jones Most Secret War xxxvi. 310 The Navy would not take him because as a stretcher case he would occupy as much space on board ship as four men standing up.
stretcher-fly n. (see 11).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > one of a number on line
dropper1829
bob-fly1832
dropper-fly1834
bobber1837
stretcher1837
drop-fly1870
stretcher-fly1883
tail-fly1883
1883 Cent. Mag. July 379/1 A bass rose and snapped the stretcher fly before it fully settled on the water.
stretcher-iron n. Leather Manufacturing = stake n.1 5b.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > for smoothing
sleeker1611
smoothing-iron1627
stretcher-iron1839
stretching-iron1839
slicker1852
stake1853
staking-iron1889
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 768 The clean skins after being dried, are finished first on the stretcher-iron, and then on the herse or stretching frame.
stretcher-man n. = stretcher-bearer n.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > military paramedics
orderly1778
hospital steward1856
stretcher-man1874
stretcher-bearer1876
stretcher-party1884
hospital corps1899
hospital corpsman1901
sanitar1916
corpsman1941
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. vii. 202 If a couple of spare limbers are available the S.A.A. might be placed upon them and drawn by the spare-ammunition and stretcher-men.
stretcher-mule n. (see quot. 1875).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > treating or processing textile materials > treating or processing cotton > [noun] > machine for drawing or twisting rovings
stretching-mule1835
stretcher-mule1875
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Stretcher-mule, a mule adapted to stretch and twist fine rovings of cotton.
stretcher-party n. Military a party of men equipped with stretchers and appliances for assisting and removing the wounded.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > military paramedics
orderly1778
hospital steward1856
stretcher-man1874
stretcher-bearer1876
stretcher-party1884
hospital corps1899
hospital corpsman1901
sanitar1916
corpsman1941
1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 112 The strength of the stretcher party will be determined by the principal medical officer.
stretcher-pole n. a pole of an ambulance stretcher.
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stretcher-pole1892
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 28 We socks 'im with a stretcher-pole.
stretcher strain n. Metallurgy a furrowed marking on the surface of a metal produced by local deformation.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > qualities of metals > [noun] > imperfections
honeycomb1530
roll mark1894
hair crack1896
season crack1909
season cracking1910
snowflake1919
hairline crack1923
shrinkage cavity1923
clink1925
shatter crack1930
stretcher strain1931
pimpling1940
stringer1942
quench cracking1949
1931 Metal Progress Sept. 90/1 Stretcher strains (or more appropriately ‘worms’) are the shop names for the phenomenon known as the ‘Lines of Lüder’, after Lüder of Magdeburg, who first described them in 1860.
1971 Steel in U.S.S.R. I. 899 (heading) Causes of the formation of strain lines (stretcher strains) when drawing stainless-steel tubes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
stretcherv.
/ˈstrɛtʃə/, U.S. /ˈstrɛtʃər/ transitive. To carry off or convey (an injured or sick person) on a stretcher.
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the world > health and disease > healing > transport for the sick or injured > transport the sick or injured [verb (transitive)] > by stretcher
stretcher1976
1976 Daily Mirror 15 Mar. 30/6 The sickening blow of seeing Gary Locke stretchered off in only the seventh minute.
1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) i. 7 The beer-crazed mob of American boobs cheers..the crunched leg of the unhome-team left tackle as he is stretchered off the field.
1980 ‘K. Royce’ Third Arm v. 52 He did not himself feel shock until after Adams had been stretchered from the car.
1982 Times 11 June 6/4 Casualties..were stretchered to a field hospital.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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