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bloater(dictionary)

stretcher (iou) and bloater (iou)


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.

bloater (iou)



bloater noun. M19.
[from BLOAT verb1 + -ER1.]
A herring cured by bloating.
YARMOUTH bloater.