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Means of carrying the wounded
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stretcher
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "person who stretches," agent noun from stretch (v.). As "canvas frame for carrying the sick or wounded," from 1845.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who, or that which, stretches. 2 A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person. vb. (context transitive English) To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A stretcher , litter , or pram is an apparatus used for moving patients who require medical care. A basic type (cot or litter) must be carried by two or more people. A wheeled stretcher (known as a gurney, trolley, bed or cart) is often equipped with variable ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stretcher \Stretch"er\, n. One who, or that which, stretches. (Masonry) A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall. --Gwilt. (Arch.) A piece of timber used in building. (Naut.) A narrow crosspiece of the bottom ...
Usage examples of stretcher.
Sels was being taken out on a bubble-enclosed stretcher with Bett at his side.
Igorina had browbeaten a couple of guards to carry Wazzer on a stretcher.
A squad of med-robots bustled through the main door of the lab, two of them carrying a stretcher, the others holding feed lines and monitoring equipment hooked up to the patient.
To produce a transverse and yet preserve a true longitudinal bond, the bricks are laid in a definite arrangement of stretchers and headers.
But when Kara Antreen was pulled past on a floating stretcher the photogram recorders all swung to follow the procession, and the mediacrowd swam off after them like sharks after chum.
In the dim and unsteady light of emergency generators, a sullen group of medical workers was picketing the casualty department, and there was an angry crowd of relatives and parents trying to force their way through with plague-sick people on makeshift stretchers.
When I walked in with the stretcher, they handed me a squeegee broom and told me to go to work.
There were images of the submarshal looking at him strangely, and warm pressure across his chest, and being carried somewhere on a stretcher, then rolling in agony in a wagon.
Sid followed the stretcher back to the skimmer where an aidman had it grounded while he worked on the bleeding and strapped on some narco-spray nerve blocks.
Advancing to the front of the platform, the two Ashanti set the stretcher near the edge.
The stretchers were soon stowed on board, driver and brancardier took their seats, and the old bus crept down the street.
Behind the stretcher came Alf Brummel, handcuffed and escorted by two of his own officers.
You lower him down the cliff on a rescue stretcher, load him into one of the Doos, and away you go.
I watched Meldrum drag the stretcher over to the Doos, while Yamamoto came up the rope like a squirrel.
Behind, a gasping stretcher team emerges from the western tunnel, bearing the heart-attack victim shoulder high.