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War zone aid, one with companion picking up litter?
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stretcher-bearer
Word definitions for stretcher-bearer in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one who helps carry a stretcher [syn: litter-bearer ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who carries, or helps to carry, injured or dead people on a stretcher.
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.