stretcher

stretcher is a 9-letter English word with 14 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, stretches. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 14 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who, or that which, stretches.
2. noun. A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
3. noun. A piece of timber used in building.
4. noun. A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
5. noun. A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
6. noun. A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
7. noun. An overstretching of the truth; a lie.
8. noun. 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.
9. noun. An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
10. noun. The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
11. noun. a stone that forms the top of wall or building

    Synonyms: capstone, copestone

12. noun. a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
13. noun. a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
14. noun. a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting

Synonyms

capstone, copestone

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stretcher:

restretch

Common word forms

stretchers, stretchered

Words from these letters

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