stretcher
pronunciation
How to pronounce stretcher in British English:
UK [ˈstretʃə(r)]
How to pronounce stretcher in American English:
US [ˈstrɛtʃɚ]
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- Noun:
- 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
Word Origin
- stretcher (n.)
- early 15c., "person who stretches," agent noun from stretch (v.). As "canvas frame for carrying the sick or wounded," from 1845.
Example
- 1. Have you ever tried to carry someone on a stretcher with only three people ?
- 2. Video from outside the courthouse showed fox being wheeled out in a stretcher and into an ambulance .
- 3. Free at last , I was strapped on to a stretcher and airlifted out of the valley .
- 4. There was another flurry of hospital personnel , another stretcher brought to the bed next to me .
- 5. They gather on a patch of open grass before a stretcher made from freshly cut bamboo , bound and laid with banana leaves .