noun A flat frame used to carry an injured or sick person.
- There, characteristically, he refused to be carried on a stretcher, saying he was too heavy for nurses. He walked in with their support.
— Benedict le Vay, The heroes of Soham (2022)
- The goal also cost the Blues the services of Luiz, who was injured in attempting to clear and was taken off on a stretcher and replaced by Gary Cahill.
— Phil McNulty, Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea (2012)
- Paramedics carried him out on a stretcher.
- Two volunteers lifted the injured hiker onto a stretcher and carried him down the trail.
- The ambulance crew rolled a stretcher into the emergency room.
noun A frame that holds canvas taut for painting.
- The artist mounted a fresh canvas onto a wooden stretcher.
- She stapled the canvas tightly around the stretcher before she started painting.
- The art store sells wooden stretchers in many different sizes.
