stretcher
/ˈstrɛtʃər/
noun
- A lightweight frame covered with cloth, used to carry a sick or injured person.
- The paramedics carefully lifted the injured hiker onto the stretcher.
- During the earthquake, volunteers carried survivors on stretchers to the hospital.
- The soldier was brought back from the battlefield on a stretcher.
- A device used to stretch or extend something, such as a frame for stretching canvas or a tool for expanding shoes.
- The artist adjusted the canvas on the wooden stretcher before painting.
- He used a shoe stretcher to make the new boots more comfortable.
- The tent poles acted as stretchers to keep the fabric taut.
- A brick or stone laid lengthwise in a wall, with its long side visible.
- The mason alternated stretchers and headers to create a strong brick wall.
- Each stretcher in the wall was carefully aligned with the row below.
- The old building's facade showed a pattern of stretchers and headers.