A utensil for the carrying of a load by two or more men; a stretcher, a bier; spec. a flat rectangular frame of transverse bars, having shafts or…

A litter. Obsolete.

spec. With reference to the use as an improvised litter or stretcher for carrying a person who has been wounded or taken ill.

A kind of litter composed of two poles separated by crossbars upon which canvas is stretched, used to transport sick or wounded persons.

In full Neil Robertson stretcher. A type of rigid, enclosed, protective stretcher into which a person may be strapped and moved in an upright…