DEFINITION
noun
1 a framework of two poles with a long piece of canvas slung between them, used for carrying sick, injured, or dead people.2 a wooden frame over which a canvas is spread and tautened ready for painting.• [ with modifier ] a rod or frame used for expanding or tautening a specified thing: sail stretchers.3 a rod or bar joining and supporting chair legs.• a board in a boat against which a rower presses the feet for support.4 a brick or stone laid with its long side along the face of a wall.5 archaic, informal an exaggeration or lie.
verb [ with obj. ]carry (a sick or injured person) somewhere on a stretcher: their striker had to be stretchered off following a tackle.
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