Vocabulary : Stretcher to Striae
Stretcher : One who, or that which, stretches. ;; A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall. ;; A piece of timber used in building. ;; A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet. ;; A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped. ;; A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons. ;; An overstretching of the truth; a lie. ;; 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. ;; An instrument for stretching boots or gloves. ;; The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.Stretching : of Stretch ;; a. & n. from Stretch, v.
Stretto : The crowding of answer upon subject near the end of a fugue. ;; In an opera or oratorio, a coda, or winding up, in an accelerated time.
Strew : To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave. ;; To cover more or less thickly by scattering something over or upon; to cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered; as, they strewed the ground with leaves; leaves strewed the ground. ;; To spread abroad; to disseminate.
Strewed : of Strew
