stretcher
Medicine/Medical.
a kind of litter, often of canvas stretched on a frame, for carrying the sick, wounded, or dead.
a similar litter on wheels, adapted for use in ambulances and hospitals.
a person or thing that stretches.
any of various instruments for extending, widening, distending, etc.
a bar, beam, or fabricated material, serving as a tie or brace.
Masonry. a brick or stone laid in a wall so that its longer edge is exposed or parallel to the surface.: Compare header (def. 5a).
a simple wooden framework on which the canvas for an oil painting is stretched.
Furniture.
a framework connecting and bracing the legs of a piece of furniture.
one member of this framework.
a crosspiece that is set athwart and near the bottom in a small boat, and against which the feet of a rower are braced.
one of the thin, sliding rods connecting the canopy and handle of an umbrella.
to stretch (canvas for a painting) on a stretcher.
Origin of stretcher
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How to use stretcher in a sentence
Massachusetts General had never seen so many patients on stretchers lining the hallways of the hospital.
Massachusetts General Hospital Deals With Shrapnel, Severed Limbs, and Amputations | Lizzie Crocker | April 16, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDozens succumbed to the heat and dehydration and had to be carried away on stretchers by the South Sudan Red Cross.
The bond of an arch obtains its name from the arrangement of headers and stretchers on its soffit.
The bond usually adopted is one course of headers to four of stretchers.
They heard that one country was in special need of stretchers, a second absorbent cotton, a third hospital gauze.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia Austrian
The men with stretchers bring in their bleeding burdens, and lay them gently upon the ground.
The Boys of '61 | Charles Carleton Coffin.While my bed was being prepared I went over to the ambulance, whither the wounded were being brought in on stretchers.
The Relief of Mafeking | Filson Young
British Dictionary definitions for stretcher
/ (ˈstrɛtʃə) /
a device for transporting the ill, wounded, or dead, consisting of a frame covered by canvas or other material
a strengthening often decorative member joining the legs of a chair, table, etc
the wooden frame on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
a tie beam or brace used in a structural framework
a brick or stone laid horizontally with its length parallel to the length of a wall: Compare header (def. 4)
rowing a fixed board across a boat on which an oarsman braces his feet
Australian and NZ a camp bed
slang an exaggeration or lie
to transport (a sick or injured person) on a stretcher
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