Word forms: plural stretchers, past tense, past participle stretchered
1. countable noun
A stretcher is a long piece of canvas with a pole along each side, which is used to carry an injured or sick person.
The two ambulance attendants quickly put Plover on a stretcher and got him into theambulance.
2. passive verb
If someone is stretchered somewhere, they are carried there on a stretcher.
I was close by as Lester was stretchered into the ambulance. [beVERB-ed preposition/adverb]
The goalkeeper was stretchered off just before half-time with a rib injury. [beVERB-ed preposition/adverb]
stretcher in British English
(ˈstrɛtʃə)
noun
1.
a device for transporting the ill, wounded, or dead, consisting of a frame covered by canvas or other material
2.
a strengthening often decorative member joining the legs of a chair, table, etc
3.
the wooden frame on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
4.
a tie beam or brace used in a structural framework
5.
a brick or stone laid horizontally with its length parallel to the length of a wall
Compare header (sense 4)
6. rowing
a fixed board across a boat on which an oarsman braces his or her feet
7. Australian and New Zealand
a camp bed
8. slang
an exaggeration or lie
verb(transitive)
9.
to transport (a sick or injured person) on a stretcher
stretcher in American English
(ˈstrɛtʃər)
noun
1.
a person or thing that stretches
; specif.,
a.
a brace or tie used to extend or support a framework; crosspiece
b.
a brick or stone laid lengthwise in a wall
c.
any of several framelike devices used for stretching and shaping cloth, garments, curtains, etc.
2.
a.
a light frame covered with canvas, etc. and used for carrying the sick, injured,or dead; litter
b.
any similar device, as a wheeled cot used in ambulances
Examples of 'stretcher' in a sentence
stretcher
The other two stretcher bars were fractured and bolts were missing.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
There are also at least two paramedics by the pitch and stretcher bearers are on standby.
The Sun (2012)
The wooden jumper stretcher on the bed was a gift from a friend.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
He was given oxygen in the ring then carried to an ambulance on a stretcher.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The England hopeful was taken off on a stretcher after just nine minutes with an ankle injury.
The Sun (2015)
She was taken out on a makeshift stretcher, which was like a ladder?
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The centre-back was taken off on a stretcher wearing a neck brace and needing oxygen.
The Sun (2014)
On a stretcher they are carrying a mannequin, which is doubling as a wounded man.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
She was in agony and had to be carried away on a stretcher to an ambulance after her ski jump went disastrously wrong.
The Sun (2016)
He had used a makeshift stretcher to carry her out of a Tube tunnel.
The Sun (2015)
The Germans fired at the stretcher bearers who tried to reach them.
Simon Ball THE GUARDSMEN (2004)
As two stretcher bearers tried to rescue the victim, they triggered a bomb.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
All the victims remained conscious, but at least one had to be taken by stretcher to an ambulance.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It takes nearly 20 minutes to strap her into the stretcher and carry her to the helicopter through the snow.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It is not an easy journey for the nauseous patient, who is soon vomiting down the side of the stretcher bed into a cardboard carton.
The Sun (2008)
He added: 'If the stretcher bar was missing the rail would have been left flapping about.
The Sun (2007)
The City defender was carried off on a stretcher just five minutes into last night's friendly.
The Sun (2011)
He was then taken into the defendants' cage on a stretcher, wearing sunglasses and covered by a green blanket.
The Sun (2012)
Play was suspended for six minutes while medical staff tended to the midfielder, who left the field on a stretcher wearing a neck brace and oxygen mask.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Investigators found that one of three stretcher bars, which keep rails a uniform distance apart, was missing from the faulty points.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
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British English: stretcher /ˈstrɛtʃə/ NOUN
A stretcher is a long piece of canvas with a pole along each side, which is used to carry an injured person.
They put him on a stretcher and got him into the ambulance.