stretcher
/ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone or something that stretches.
Example Sentences
- "This done, he sank on to a stretcher, and glanced meditatively about the room."
- "After all this has been done, the funeral-procession begins. The stretcher is borne to the burialplace by male persons, even when the deceased is a woman; this work is to be done carefully."
- "The goal also cost the Blues the services of Luiz, who was injured in attempting to clear and was taken off on a stretcher and replaced by Gary Cahill."
- "There, characteristically, he refused to be carried on a stretcher, saying he was too heavy for nurses. He walked in with their support."
- "A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box."
- "The quoins should be two feet long and one foot broad on the bed, and regularly built, stretcher and header alternately"
Etymology
From stretch + -er.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɚ/
- British English: /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃə/