stretcher

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

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 (but least tall) side exposed.
6. A piece of timber used in building.
7. (slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
8. A board against which a rower places his feet.
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. (obsolete) A penis, especially a long penis.

Verb

To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.

Concepts

civière

brancard

panneresse

châssis

couchette

brancarder

Synonymes

litter

bier

palanquin

pallet

gurney

hammock

capstone

bed

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copestone

barrow

coping stone

sedan chair

drawframe

palki

cobbler’s last

portable bed

shoemaker’s last

panel brick

sheet-straightening machine

outbond brick

sheet rectifier

carrying hammock

dhooly

machila

roof-supporting pole

tentering machine

stentering machine

expanding roller

stretcher rod

stretcher brick

cot

cradle

handbarrow

last

rack

sedan

shelf

shoetree

tenter

load requiring two people to carry it 3

fishing platform

Traductions

barella

camilla

Bahre

Trage

Tragbahre

draagbaar

brancard

lettiga

maca

andas

bara

baar

padiola

berrie

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈstɹɛt͡ʃə/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From stretch + -er.