stretcher-bearer
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6.4
- noun
- /ˈstrɛtʃərˌbɛrər/
- Jargon
:
camillero
- As the chaos unfolded, reliable stretcher-bearers emerged to assist those in need of urgent care.
- stretcher-bearer carry
Examples
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We'd send our medics and stretcher bearers into no man's land to treat the wounded.
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By the time he reaches the mound, the stretcher-bearers have managed to get Mueller up the steps and into the clubhouse.
Fiction book (1992) -
The stretcher-bearers will find him.
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Report to the rear as stretcher bearers.
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Stretcher bearers rushed one serious case to a medical helicopter that had landed in the school parking lot.
Fiction book (1999) -
Two stretcher bearers appeared.
Fiction book (2000) -
After a moment, a medical officer and two stretcher bearers came and picked Ackerman up to take him to the Casualty Clearing Station and thence to a base hospital, perhaps one in England.
Fiction book (1994) -
A medical team—a physician, a nurse, and stretcher bearers—stood outside the three tents as the ambulances.
Fiction book (2000) -
The stretcher-bearer hurried to the injured soldier to transport him to safety.
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During the emergency, the stretcher-bearers worked tirelessly to carry the wounded to the medics.
Synonyms
63
5.0
A person who carries a coffin at a funeral
A person who carries a stretcher to move injured people
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stretcher-bearer comes from the two parts stretcher (a long frame used to carry injured people) and bearer from bear, meaning 'to carry'. So a stretcher-bearer is literally someone whose job is to carry a stretcher and help the sick or injured.