See Also: Side Lights - Sailing(gambling)
Occulting Lights - Sailing(gambling)
Leading Lights - Sailing(gambling)
Running Lights - Sailing(gambling)
Navigation Lights - Sailing(gambling)
Side Bet/Side Wager - General(gambling)
Side-by-Side - Badminton(gambling)
Side by side trading(finance)
Side-by-side trading(money)
lights(dictionary)

stretcher (iou) and Side Lights - Sailing (gambling)


stretcher (iou)



stretcher noun & verb. ME.
[from STRETCH verb + -ER1.]
A. noun.
I.
A person who stretches; spec. one employed to stretch cloth. ME.
An instrument or appliance for expanding fabric, making it taut, etc.; spec. a wooden frame on which an artist's canvas is spread and drawn taut ready for painting. M16.
A thing laid lengthways; esp. a brick or stone laid with its long side along the face of the wall. Cf. HEADER noun 2. L17.
A bar, rod, etc., serving as a brace or support; spec. (a) a crosspiece between the legs of a chair; (b) a board in a rowing-boat against which the feet of the rower are pressed; (c) a stick for keeping a fishing net expanded; (d) any of the extensible rods joining the ribs and the sliding sleeve of an umbrella. L18.
A framework of two poles with canvas or Other material between, carried by two people and used for the emergency transport of a sick, injured, or dead person in a lying position. M19.
V. Brittain I was carried off the boat on a stretcher, and pushed into one of the ambulances.
b. A folding bed or bedstead; a camp-bed. Orig. & chiefly Austral. M19.
II. A toe of a hawk or falcon. L15-L17.
An exaggeration; a lie. arch. slang. L17.
J. K. Jerome The customary stretchers about the wonderful things we had done.
Angling. A tail-fly. E19.
Comb.: stretcher-bearer a person who helps to carry a stretcher, esp. in a war or at a major accident; stretcher bond Bricklaying: in which only stretchers (and not headers) are used; stretcher case an injured or sick person needing conveyance on a stretcher; stretcher fly = sense 8 above; stretcher-party (chiefly Military) a group of stretcher-bearers; stretcher strain Metallurgy a furrow on the surface of a metal produced by local deformation.
b. verb trans. Carry (off) or convey (a sick or injured person) on a stretcher. L20.

Side Lights - Sailing (gambling)


Green and red lights on the starboard and port sides of the boat required for navigation at night. Each light is supposed to be visible through an arc of 112.5? beginning from directly ahead of the boat to a point 22.5?aft of the beam.