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Stretcher
·noun One who, or that which, stretches. II. Stretcher ·noun A piece of timber used in building. I...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
stretcher
A notorious lie.--Carr's Craven. Brockett. Whenever Mrs. Oscar Dust told a stretcher, old Waters wa...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.