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1. A wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
    
2. A mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
    
3. A litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
    
4. A stone that forms the top of wall or building
   - capstone, copestone, coping stone

Derived forms: stretchers

See also: stretch

Type of: framework, litter, mechanical device, stone

Part of: wall

Encyclopedia: Stretcher