stretcher

A flat frame or bed used to carry a person who is injured, ill, or dead.

• They carried him on a stretcher.
• Paramedics lifted the patient onto the stretcher.
• Two stretchers were waiting beside the ambulance.

Similar words: litter

Common phrases: on a stretcher, carry a stretcher, stretcher bearer

A device placed inside a shoe or glove to make it wider or larger.

• The stretcher made my shoes wider.
• She left a shoe stretcher inside the tight boot overnight.
• A glove stretcher helped loosen the stiff leather.

Common phrases: shoe stretcher, glove stretcher, wooden stretcher

A frame that holds a piece of cloth tight so an artist can paint on it.

• She fixed the canvas to a stretcher.
• The artist made a wooden stretcher for his painting.
• Loose stretcher bars allowed the canvas to sag.

Common phrases: canvas stretcher, wooden stretcher, stretcher bars

A person or device that pulls something to make it longer, wider, or tighter.

• The stretcher pulled the fabric tight.
• A mechanical stretcher made the material longer.
• The worker used a wire stretcher to tighten the fence.

Common phrases: fabric stretcher, mechanical stretcher, wire stretcher

To carry an injured person on a special flat frame or bed.

• They stretchered the injured player off the field.
• Rescuers stretchered her down the mountain.
• He was stretchered into the waiting ambulance.

How to use it: stretcher someone off something (Medics stretchered the player off the pitch.); be stretchered to somewhere (She was stretchered to the ambulance.)

Common phrases: stretcher someone off, stretcher someone away, stretcher someone out