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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stretcher-bearer
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A few of my men have volunteered to be stretcher-bearers if manpower gets short.
▪ All the stretcher-bearers got wiped out.
▪ Ambulances and stretcher-bearers moved about the field-staying close, however, to the Union lines, for no truce existed.
▪ By the time the stretcher-bearers reached them Douglas had lost consciousness.
▪ I asked, when the stretcher-bearers arrived and put on their harnesses.
▪ It was a party of stretcher-bearers, passing round for a final ascertaining that only the dead remained.
▪ Some of the men have volunteered to help as stretcher-bearers on the day.
▪ The rear stretcher-bearer had been hit in the head.
Wiktionary
stretcher-bearer

n. A person who carries, or helps to carry, injured or dead people on a stretcher.

WordNet
stretcher-bearer

n. one who helps carry a stretcher [syn: litter-bearer]

Usage examples of "stretcher-bearer".

The stretcher-bearers I give him are very gentle fellows, and he always has the same: Paffin, a fat shoe-maker with a stammer, and Monsieur Bouin, a professor of mathematics, with a grey beard and very precise movements.

A few minutes later crowds of wounded men and stretcher-bearers came back from that direction.

The stretcher-bearers, led by an anxious Gordie wringing his hands, were being ushered to the stairs leading down to his quarters, the boxrooms - and the bottom of the lift shaft.

The Japanese dragooned him into being a stretcher-bearer, but he was all right last I saw him.

He jerked his thumb at some of the stretcher-bearers who had previously been the 'cold storage' guards.

The dressing station was on the Austrian side of the river under the edge of the hill and stretcher-bearers would bring the wounded back across the pontoon bridge.