Crossword clues for stretcher
stretcher
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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(Naut.)
A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.
--Dana.
A litter, or frame, for carrying disabled, wounded, or dead persons.
An overstretching of the truth; a lie. [Slang]
One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.
The frame upon which canvas is stretched for a painting.
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
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.
WordNet
n. 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, coping stone]
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 height frames, wheels, tracks, or skids. In American English, a wheeled stretcher is referred to as a gurney. The name comes from a horse-drawn cab patented in the USA by J. Theodore Gurney in 1883 which bore a similarity to early wheeled stretchers.
Stretchers are primarily used in acute out-of-hospital care situations by emergency medical services (EMS), military, and search and rescue personnel. They are also used to hold prisoners during lethal injections in the United States.
A stretcher is a horizontal support element of a table, chair or other item of furniture; this structure is normally made of exposed wood and ties vertical elements of the piece together. There are numerous styles of the stretcher including circumferential, double and spindle design. This term is sometimes referred to as a stretcher beam. A very common pattern for chairs has each front leg connected to the back by the lateral stretchers, which in turn are connected by a medial stretcher. In the William and Mary period chi (from the Greek letter chi - Χ) stretchers were common, connecting the legs diagonally, frequently with a finial where the stretchers crossed.
A stretcher is a medical device used to carry a person from one place to another.
Stretcher may also refer to:
- Stretcher (furniture), a horizontal support element of an item of furniture
- In brickwork, a brick laid with its long narrow side exposed
- Procrustes or "the stretcher", a smith and bandit in Greek mythology who stretched some of his victims to fit a bed
- "Stretcher" or "The Stretcher", nickname of American professional wrestler Barry Horowitz
- Stretcher (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
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.