stretcher
English
Noun
(en noun )
One who, or that which, stretches.
A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
* {{quote-news
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A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
A brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header).
- (Gwilt)
(architecture) A piece of timber used in building.
(slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
(nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.
(nautical) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and gripped.
- (Dana)
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.
(obsolete) A penis, especially a long penis.
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, When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher , with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen’d wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood}}
Derived terms
* stretcher-bearer
* stretcher case
Verb
(en verb )
To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.
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gurney
Noun
(en noun )
(US) A stretcher having wheeled legs.
* 2001 , , Fourth Estate, paperback edition, page 22
- Yet her vision has narrowed strangely (good, for she was in a medical facility, if she were having a hemorrhage or a stroke it could not be happening at a more convenient time) so that she was able to see little in the fluorescent-lit space except the man who lay motionless on a gurney beneath the strongest of the lights.
* 2005 , , Number 506: The Talk, Part 7
- I’m pretty sure I didn’t actively steer towards the tree, but… I don’t know. I just remember that wave of despair and then the EMTs pulling me out of the car and putting me on a gurney .
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