What is the meaning of STRETCHER. Phrases containing STRETCHER
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Stretcher is Australian and New Zealand slang for a camp bed. Stretcher is slang for an exaggeration or lie.
An inclined footrest attached to the bottom of a boat, to which a rower may place and attach his feet.
Eighteeth-century expressions for penis.
A notorious lie.
In anal intercourse the man who fucks, as opposed to the one who is fucked.
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The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.
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One who, or that which, stretches.
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A field hospital, so organized as to follow an army in its movements, and intended to succor the wounded as soon as possible. Often used adjectively; as, an ambulance wagon; ambulance stretcher; ambulance corps.
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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 bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
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A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
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A piece of timber used in building.
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The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
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An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
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The ribs and stretchers of an umbrella or other structure with a fabric covering.
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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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A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
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An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
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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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