1. a portable bed or frame used to carry an injured or sick person
2. a device used to stretch or expand something
3. a brick or stone laid lengthwise in a wall
Usage: construction

Examples

• The paramedics carried the patient on a stretcher to the ambulance.
• Emergency workers used a stretcher to transport the injured hiker down the mountain.
• She bought a shoe stretcher to make her tight boots more comfortable.
• The canvas stretcher kept the painting taut in its frame.
• The mason carefully placed each stretcher brick in the wall.
• Medical teams rushed the stretcher into the emergency room.