stretcher

Someone or something that stretches.

A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.

This done, he sank on to a stretcher, and glanced meditatively about the room.

After all this has been done, the funeral-procession begins. The stretcher is borne to the burialplace by male persons, even when the deceased is a woman; this work is to be done carefully.

A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.

A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box.

A device to stretch shoes or gloves.

A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.

The quoins should be two feet long and one foot broad on the bed, and regularly built, stretcher and header alternately

To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.

Claire Elise Tisdall, a volunteer nurse working in London, watched as a soldier was strechered past her one night.

But with Germany’s Olaf Scholz and France’s Emmanuel Macron facing red cards at home, Spain’s Pedro Sánchez briefly stretchered off[…], Giorgia Meloni – post-fascist poster girl turned star centre-forward of the new right – is shooting at an open goal.