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US
/ˈstɹɛtʃɝ/
]
[ UK /stɹˈɛtʃɐ/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈɛtʃɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
- a stone that forms the top of wall or building
- a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
- a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
How To Use stretcher In A Sentence
- She rode in back of the station wagon, probably on a wheeled stretcher, with a battery-run respirator on her chest.
- The NDTV network broadcast footage from the scene, about 170km southeast of New Delhi, showing debris strewn across the tracks and police officers carrying bodies covered with sheets on stretchers.
- After climbing to 15,000 feet over four days, she had to be taken off the mountain on a stretcher in a night-long rescue. Knuckleballs of Kilimanjaro: Dickey Plots Ascent
- On to the stretcher with him, strapping on, doubled back along the landing, started down the stairway. RIOT
- Carling strained a thigh muscle in Dunedin and Bayfield ended that match on a stretcher with a neck seizure.
- He was then taken into the defendants' cage on a stretcher, wearing sunglasses and covered by a green blanket. The Sun
- He was stretchered off with knee - ligament damage and looks destined to be sidelined for months.
- No one will truly believe he is injured today unless he is stretchered away with a limb hanging off.
- In using this ingenious wire stretcher, he stapled his wire to post number one, carried the length past post number two, looped the chain around post number three, having the chain long enough so that he might tauten the wire and hold the crankhandle steady with his knee or left arm while he drove the holding staple in post number two. Hiram the Young Farmer
- The society bills its guide as a ‘must-read for all armchair supporters’ and claims that even the most over-enthusiastic spectator should not need to be stretchered off mid-match.