Stretcher - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈstretʃər|
Brit.
|ˈstretʃə|
noun
- a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
- a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
- a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
- a stone that forms the top of wall or building (syn: capstone, copestone)
- a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
- a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
- a stone that forms the top of wall or building (syn: capstone, copestone)
Extra examples
They carried her out to the ambulance on a stretcher.
Ward was stretchered off early in the game.
The paramedics lifted the stretcher into the ambulance.
I was carried out on a stretcher, with everyone gawping at me.
Word forms
noun
singular: stretcher
plural: stretchers
singular: stretcher
plural: stretchers
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