Meaning

11 senses
  1. Someone or something that stretches.

  2. A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.

    Trage, Tragbahre, Bahre

    носи́лкиnosílki

    носи́лкиnosýlky, но́шіnóši

  3. A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.

    Bahre, Tragbahre

    подра́мникpodrámnik

    a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting

  4. A device to stretch shoes or gloves.

    натяжно́е устро́йствоnatjažnóje ustrójstvo

    a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it

  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. A horizontal bar joining the legs of a chair or a table to provide support and stability.

  11. (obsolete)A penis, especially a long penis.

Examples

38 sentences
  1. Tom was put on a stretcher.

    ruТома положили на носилки.

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  2. They brought Tom in on a stretcher.

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  3. They took Tom away on a stretcher.

    ruОни унесли Тома на носилках.

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  4. Tom got carried out on a stretcher.

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  5. Tom was brought into the clinic on a stretcher.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney:
Русский
By meaning 3
simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney:
frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting:
device to stretch shoes or gloves:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person — see also gurney:

Origin

From stretch + -er.

From stretch + -er.

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Forms

plural: stretchers
Singularstretcher
Pluralstretchers

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
medical litter:ambulanceB1dooly
Close in meaning

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stretcher — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto