courser vs stretcher

courser

noun
  • A stone used in building a course. 

  • A person who practises coursing. 

  • Any of several species of bird in the genera Cursorius or Rhinoptilus of the family Glareolidae. 

  • A dog used for coursing. 

  • A racehorse or a charger. 

  • A hunter. 

stretcher

noun
  • A brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header). 

  • One who, or that which, stretches. 

  • A piece of timber used in building. 

  • 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. 

  • A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person. 

  • A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting. 

  • A lie; an overstretching of the truth. 

  • A board against which a rower places his feet. 

  • A device to stretch shoes or gloves. 

verb
  • To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher. 

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