1. A litter for transporting people who are ill, wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles
   "Paramedics carried the injured hiker out on a stretcher"
    
2. A wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting
   "The artist prepared her canvas on a stretcher before beginning her masterpiece"
    
3. A mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it
   "The cobbler used a stretcher to widen the tight shoes"
    
4. A stone that forms the top of wall or building
   "The masons carefully placed the final stretcher atop the garden wall";
   - capstone, copestone, coping stone

1. Carry on a stretcher
   "The paramedics stretchered the injured hiker down the mountain"

Derived forms: stretchered, stretchering, stretchers

Type of: frame, framework, litter, mechanical device, stone

Part of: wall

Encyclopedia: Stretcher