stretcher

IPA: strˈɛtʃɝ

One who, or that which, stretches.
A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
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.
(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.
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.
(obsolete) A penis, especially a long penis.

Examples of "stretcher" in Sentences

Stretcher and compressor design.
Look at the man on the stretcher.
Visser left the pitch on a stretcher.
Cotter was there as a stretcher bearer.
The body on the stretcher is Englund's.
Casualty lifting with a flexible stretcher.
Tensioning is done with the stretcher roll.
Street lugers ride stretchers in the supine position.
The blankets used as stretchers were sodden with blood.
It shows there are three stretcher bars and a lock stretcher bar.
(The warp and weft are at forty-five degrees to the stripes, because the stretcher is rotated.)
But as his stretcher is wheeled past the crime scene, he knows this is no random act of violence.
The lights went out for her, her body quivered the stretcher is not yet here; I struggled looking for a way to go to hear her heart with my hands not able to help me
Going to the address of the reg. owner of a car in which the young female passenger who looked like rag doll on the ambulance stretcher is almost certainly dead and the driver nearly so.
Then they covered the burning, smoking gauze with absorbent cotton, then with clean, neat bandages, after which they called the stretcher bearers, and Rochard was carried from the operating table back to the ward.
We would probably translate that as the stretcher is not yet here; I struggled looking for a way para ir a escuchar su corazón to go to hear her heart con las manos confundidas no me mantengo en pie with my hands confused (not working, not able to help me)