Meaning

• One who, or that which, stretches.

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

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

• A device to stretch shoes or gloves.

• A brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header).

• A piece of timber used in building.

• A lie; an overstretching of the truth.

• A board against which a rower places his feet.

• A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and gripped.

• 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.

• An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.

• A penis, especially a long penis.

Meaning

• To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.