A rubber-soled lace-up canvas shoe for sports or onboard ships; a precursor of trainers.
The plimsoll symbol ⦵ (or o) that is used as a superscript in the notation of thermodynamics to indicate an arbitrarily chosen non-zero reference point.
A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
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 brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header).
To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.