stretchers

[strech-er]

stretch·er

[strech-er]
noun
1.
Medicine/Medical.
a.
a kind of litter, often of canvas stretched on a frame, for carrying the sick, wounded, or dead.
b.
a similar litter on wheels, adapted for use in ambulances and hospitals.
2.
a person or thing that stretches.
3.
any of various instruments for extending, widening, distending, etc.
4.
a bar, beam, or fabricated material, serving as a tie or brace.
5.
Masonry. a brick or stone laid in a wall so that its longer edge is exposed or parallel to the surface. Compare header (def. 5a).
EXPAND
6.
a simple wooden framework on which the canvas for an oil painting is stretched.
7.
Furniture.
a.
a framework connecting and bracing the legs of a piece of furniture.
b.
one member of this framework.
8.
a crosspiece that is set athwart and near the bottom in a small boat, and against which the feet of a rower are braced.
9.
one of the thin, sliding rods connecting the canopy and handle of an umbrella.
COLLAPSE
verb (used with object)
10.
to stretch (canvas for a painting) on a stretcher.

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Stretchers is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.

Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English stretcher. See stretch, -er1
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