stretcher
53
3.1
- noun
- /ˈstrɛtʃər/
- Specialized
:
camilla
- After the accident, we saw a crowd gather as the firefighters lifted the victim onto a stretcher.
- from bed to stretcher
They offloaded me and put me on a stretcher car.
- They offloaded me and put me on a stretcher car.
- Can someone please get a stretcher?
- I saw lights flashing and I saw a guy, a couple of guys in uniform with a stretcher, and it was scary.
- You see the video of them on the stretcher and their elbow is fucked.
- So Will Smith, he was in the hospital, yeah, he Facetimes me and he's laying on a fucking stretcher or whatever the fuck.
Examples
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A few minutes later, the paramedics swept their stretcher into the emergency department.
Fiction book (1991) -
As Tanaka was lifted onto the stretcher, Worf got a clear look at the gash on his leg.
Fiction book (1992) -
I need you to get down under the stretcher, and do it now.
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We'll get a stretcher in here.
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See if they have a stretcher at the police station.
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Get the stretcher up here.
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The door was open, and the funeral director had prepared a stretcher for the baby to lie on.
Academic text (2010) -
I walked alongside the man's stretcher as he was moved upstairs to the intensive care unit.
Fiction book (1991) -
Paramedics carry the still-unconscious Selina past on a stretcher and load her into the back of an ambulance.
Fiction book (1992) -
The injured were carried on stretchers, while the dead were moved on donkey carts.
Academic text (2005)
Synonyms
77
4.6
A wheeled stretcher used to move patients in hospitals
Compounds
- Jargon
A group of people who carry injured or sick people on stretchers during emergencies
How Elaborate
- Archaic
1
9.9
- Archaic
- Archaic
1
9.9
- Specialized
53
3.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stretcher comes from the verb stretch, which means 'to pull tight'. Long ago the word named a frame with cloth stretched between poles, so a medical stretcher is a light frame or bed with fabric stretched across it used to carry a person.