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- Stretcher - n. - One who, or that which, stretches.
- Stretcher - n. - A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
- Stretcher - n. - A piece of timber used in building.
- Stretcher - n. - A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
- Stretcher - n. - A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
- Stretcher - n. - A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
- Stretcher - n. - An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
- Stretcher - n. - 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.
- Stretcher - n. - An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
- Stretcher - n. - The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
- Litter - n. - A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.
- Bond - n. - The union or tie of the several stones or bricks forming a wall. The bricks may be arranged for this purpose in several different ways, as in English or block bond (Fig. 1), where one course consists of bricks with their ends toward the face of the wall, called headers, and the next course of bricks with their lengths parallel to the face of the wall, called stretchers; Flemish bond (Fig.2), where each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.
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