<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A kind of litter, often of canvas stretched on a frame, for carrying the sick, wounded, or dead.</li><li>A similar litter on wheels, adapted for use in ambulances and hospitals.</li><li>A person or thing that stretches.</li><li>Any of various instruments for extending, widening, distending, etc.</li><li>A bar, beam, or fabricated material, serving as a tie or brace.</li><li>Masonry. A brick or stone laid in a wall so that its longer edge is exposed or parallel to the surface.</li><li>A simple wooden framework on which the canvas for an oil painting is stretched.</li><li>Furniture. A framework connecting and bracing the legs of a piece of furniture.</li><li>One member of this framework.</li><li>A crosspiece that is set athwart and near the bottom in a small boat, and against which the feet of a rower are braced.</li><li>One of the thin, sliding rods connecting the canopy and handle of an umbrella.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>To stretch (canvas for a painting) on a stretcher.</li></ul>