{i} litter for carrying the sick or wounded; person or thing that stretches; device that widens or extends; wooden framework on which canvas for a painting is stretched
If someone is stretchered somewhere, they are carried there on a stretcher. I was close by as Lester was stretchered into the ambulance. a type of bed used for carrying someone who is too injured or ill to walk. to carry someone on a stretcher be stretchered off/into etc
The feet of a rower are strapped in shoes that are mounted close to the toes on a footplate, which is connected (usually on three points) to the boat, the whole construction is called stretcher
A stretcher is a long piece of canvas with a pole along each side, which is used to carry an injured or sick person. The two ambulance attendants quickly put Plover on a stretcher and got him into the ambulance
a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting