Definition of stretcher in English:

stretcher

noun ˈstrɛtʃəˈstrɛtʃər

1A framework of two poles with a long piece of canvas slung between them, used for carrying sick, injured, or dead people.
担架
Example sentencesExamples
- A group of nurses and soldiers in camouflage carrying stretchers rushed towards the scene.
- Several blackened prisoners were carried out helplessly on stretchers; they lay dying in front of us in the cold.
- Behind the band, they carried stretchers, symbolic of the operational role played by the bandsmen in action.
- Bystanders and ambulance workers made crude stretchers to carry the wounded to vehicles to take them to nearby hospitals.
- At any time of the day or night, a tall RAF corporal would be seen helping to carry a stretcher containing an injured soldier into the tent.
- It's a miracle how they carry those stretchers but they get through even though it takes ten men all day to move one stretcher case back three or four miles.
- As the captives escaped, residents and troops ran through the streets, and the wounded were carried off on stretchers.
- The injured man was carried on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance and rushed to Colchester General Hospital with a police escort.
- Hostages who were still conscious were led to safety, while others had to be carried on stretchers into waiting ambulances.
- After they were carried out on stretchers, paramedics checked them before they were taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital for treatment for minor injuries and shock.
- Emergency services were called and fire crew and paramedics strapped the two badly injured men onto stretchers before they were both airlifted to Wythenshawe Hospital, where they are currently being treated.
- Some of the injured were carried away on stretchers.
- Others were carried out on stretchers, covered in blood.
- Within minutes, the injured were being carried away on stretchers, clad in thermal blankets to keep them warm against shock.
- Government helicopters buzzed over the scene as rescuers tied the injured to stretchers before forming a human chain and using ropes to pull them up the slope.
- As soon as the lead ambulance arrived he was told who to evacuate and helped carry the injured on stretchers.
- The injured man was carried on a stretcher by firefighters up a steep embankment to a waiting ambulance.
- Other papers showed the rows of stretchers of dead children, their relatives bending over them.
- Emergency teams were seen carrying the injured away on stretchers, and a state transportation spokeswoman says two people had to be freed from the bus.
- One source put the total at 100 people carried out on stretchers or injured, another claimed 30 people were in intensive care in the days after the raid.
Synonyms
sedan chair, palanquin
2A wooden frame over which a canvas is spread and tautened ready for painting.
（绷画布的）框
Example sentencesExamples
- The structure of the stretcher, the tautness of the canvas and the transparency of the paint contribute to the total effect.
- It is very difficult to see the canvas in most reproductions, but in the original it is possible to make out the stretcher with two of its diagonal wooden corner-struts.
- Fortunately, the full lengths were not cut down, but were shortened by folding the unwanted canvas over a shorter stretcher.
- These looms were created from wooden stretcher bars, like the ones used to stretch painting canvas.
- Since then most canvas paintings have been attached to lightweight wooden frameworks or stretchers.
- Despite the damage, the painting is on its original stretcher, has not been relined and is probably in its original frame.
- They were like bed frames, or big painting stretchers.
- It was credible for the wall to look thickly mortared, but not for the wooden stretchers of a canvas, or a man's coat, to be similarly treated.
- Finally, wall works measuring about 34 by 26 inches with softly rounded corners featured Iris prints on leather mounted on canvas stretchers.
- Elsewhere, he simply stitched bags together and hung them on stretchers, forming grids that recall framed fabrics in ethnographic galleries.
- With scant regard for the convention of the stretcher as support, Farber's paintings are conceived as bifacial and may be installed recto or verso.
- Gilliam is known primarily as a Color School painter who ‘liberated’ the canvas from its stretcher.
- Another device he used to emphasize the objectness of his paintings was to leave exposed the ragged edge of the canvas and the staples used to attach it to the stretcher.
- He first paints a black monochrome square at the center of a large piece of raw canvas that has been conventionally stapled to a stretcher.
- Orazio did not say what he spent on linseed oil, which he could have bought for five or six pence a pint, or on his canvas and stretchers, but they were not very costly in relation to artists' fees.
- So the rest of the day is to be spent getting stretchers and canvases ready.
- The paintings were then stretched on good quality lightweight stretchers.
- It is the skill of the craftsmen who produced the stretchers and frames that now becomes the subject of the viewer's interest.
- I wanted to do a painting, but the costs of acrylics and stretchers for each of my 75 students was beyond my budget.
- The artist might attempt to disguise them by extending her unprimed canvas beyond the stretcher, suggesting an alternative reading of the work as art object.
1. 2.1with modifier A rod or frame used for expanding or tautening a specified thing.
  撑杆；撑具；撑架
  sail stretchers
  帆架。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Figure 21 illustrates four different glove stretchers that often do double duty as glove powder dispensers and hand measurers.
  We have rented a carpet stretcher, but are having problems getting the wrinkles out.
  Well, he said I needed a 'sail stretcher'.
  A sail stretcher is fastened to the sail at the meeting point between the foot and leech of the sail and can be secured to the sail spar adjacent the rear extremity thereof in any suitable manner.
3A rod or bar joining and supporting chair legs.
（支撑椅腿的）横木，横档
Example sentencesExamples
- Boston was producing leather-back chairs during this period with very bold ball-ring-ball turned front stretchers.
- Except for the legs and stretchers, which were beautifully carved and turned, the chairs were completely covered with upholstery.
- One needed a title, however, to appreciate the majesty of the tall, ostentatious chairs with upholstered, haughty-looking backs and stretchers reinforcing the legs.
- Its seat is comprised of tongue-and-groove pieces, while the leg stretchers are doweled into place.
- Even the swelled side stretchers are flatter and less graceful and seem to be the product of an efficient, and therefore presumably busy, shop.
- Despite the somewhat old-fashioned leg, the double-scrolled and finialled stretchers link it stylistically to the throne.
- Chairs imported from New England, particularly Boston, influenced the design of this chair, especially in its stretchers, relatively light seat rails, and yoked crest.
- Later, upholstery covered the entire chair, except for the legs and stretchers.
- The stretcher configuration is also significant, for the placing of the medial stretcher well to the front, rather than mid-way between front and back legs, is entirely novel.
- The rocker's stiles, arms, and stretchers were made from unmilled hickory sticks, occasionally with the bark left on.
- Reassemble the leg and stretcher, adding carpenter's wood glue before inserting the stretcher into the hole.
- They combine a joined front stretcher with turned side and back stretchers.
- Position the stretchers and side rails over the holes and drive them into place with the mallet.
1. 3.1 A board in a boat against which a rower presses the feet for support.
  （船上划船人的）蹬脚板
  Example sentencesExamples
  The foot stretcher is easily positioned to achieve these positions by loosening the 3 wing nuts and moving the foot stretcher along the adjustment plates.
  A foot stretcher breakage in the Egyptian boat caused the second semi-final to be delayed.
  This stretcher when incorporated with the camlock is able to suit any boat and is easy to adjust.
4A brick or stone laid with its long side along the face of a wall.
横砌石，顺砖。比较HEADER （义项3）
Compare with header (sense 3)
Example sentencesExamples
- The bricks are laid in alternate pairs of headers and stretchers.
- Below the sills of these bedrooms are stone stretchers that extend from one column base to the next.
- Water absorption testing of 18 stretcher bricks removed from the building revealed that all of the brick tested met the saturation coefficient requirement.
- Walls build using the traditional stretcher bond are just a half brick wide.
- To understand the following patterns, you'll want to know that stretchers are brick laid lengthwise along the wall.
5archaic, informal An exaggeration or lie.
〈古，非正式〉夸大之辞，奇谈；谎话
Example sentencesExamples
- Mark Twain is quoted: "mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before."
- One way of doing that is to refer to prior unsworn occasions when you may have told the ‘stretcher’ in question

verb ˈstrɛtʃə

[with object]

Carry (a sick or injured person) somewhere on a stretcher.
用担架抬送（病人，伤员）
their striker had to be stretchered off following a tackle
他们的前锋在遭到阻截铲球后只得用担架抬出场外。
Example sentencesExamples
- The night was tinged with sadness for City by the sight of Cooper being stretchered from the field in the dying embers.
- He was stretchered off with a twisted knee during yesterday's game at Tannadice and is unlikely to play for Rangers again this season.
- One young woman was stretchered from the beach on a makeshift platform of planks and a rubber mat after tumbling from the rocks as she tried to escape a tear gas pellet.
- He was finally stretchered off by paramedics and taken to Leeds General Infirmary.
- When he collapsed it, he was stretchered off with a neck injury that, thankfully, revealed no fractures.
- I was stretchered off and they said it was a classic case of an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
- But 20 minutes later he was again stretchered off with a suspected cartilage problem.
- No one will truly believe he is injured today unless he is stretchered away with a limb hanging off.
- He was stretchered off and driven to hospital, where he remained for a fortnight and had the first major operation on his knee.
- The following year, a surgeon told her her career was over after she was stretchered off the track at the world championships with a ruptured Achilles tendon.
- He was stretchered off and taken immediately to hospital.
- He was stretchered into an ambulance and taken to hospital where he will remain overnight.
- After receiving treatment for 10 minutes, he was stretchered off the field to be replaced by Gamble.
- However, he was stretchered off later after a challenge for a loose ball.
- He was stretchered off with knee - ligament damage and looks destined to be sidelined for months.
- Wearing an oxygen mask and giving the thumbs-up to the cameras, Murphy was stretchered out of the conference hall.
- He lay unmoving for three minutes before he was stretchered to the dressing room and, it seemed, to the hospital.
- The man was conscious as an ambulance crew stretchered him into an ambulance before taking him to York District Hospital.
- Twenty-two team members attended and stretchered the woman from the fell with a suspected leg-fracture.
- He was stretchered off at Field Mill in obvious agony, but fears he could have suffered a break have been allayed.

Rhymes

etcher, fetcher, fletcher, lecher, sketcher

Definition of stretcher in US English:

stretcher

nounˈstreCHərˈstrɛtʃər

1A framework of two poles with a long piece of canvas slung between them, used for carrying sick, injured, or dead people.
担架
Example sentencesExamples
- Other papers showed the rows of stretchers of dead children, their relatives bending over them.
- A group of nurses and soldiers in camouflage carrying stretchers rushed towards the scene.
- The injured man was carried on a stretcher by firefighters up a steep embankment to a waiting ambulance.
- One source put the total at 100 people carried out on stretchers or injured, another claimed 30 people were in intensive care in the days after the raid.
- Within minutes, the injured were being carried away on stretchers, clad in thermal blankets to keep them warm against shock.
- Hostages who were still conscious were led to safety, while others had to be carried on stretchers into waiting ambulances.
- Emergency teams were seen carrying the injured away on stretchers, and a state transportation spokeswoman says two people had to be freed from the bus.
- Bystanders and ambulance workers made crude stretchers to carry the wounded to vehicles to take them to nearby hospitals.
- After they were carried out on stretchers, paramedics checked them before they were taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital for treatment for minor injuries and shock.
- Emergency services were called and fire crew and paramedics strapped the two badly injured men onto stretchers before they were both airlifted to Wythenshawe Hospital, where they are currently being treated.
- The injured man was carried on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance and rushed to Colchester General Hospital with a police escort.
- Some of the injured were carried away on stretchers.
- Several blackened prisoners were carried out helplessly on stretchers; they lay dying in front of us in the cold.
- At any time of the day or night, a tall RAF corporal would be seen helping to carry a stretcher containing an injured soldier into the tent.
- Others were carried out on stretchers, covered in blood.
- Government helicopters buzzed over the scene as rescuers tied the injured to stretchers before forming a human chain and using ropes to pull them up the slope.
- It's a miracle how they carry those stretchers but they get through even though it takes ten men all day to move one stretcher case back three or four miles.
- Behind the band, they carried stretchers, symbolic of the operational role played by the bandsmen in action.
- As the captives escaped, residents and troops ran through the streets, and the wounded were carried off on stretchers.
- As soon as the lead ambulance arrived he was told who to evacuate and helped carry the injured on stretchers.
Synonyms
sedan chair, palanquin
1. 1.1US A gurney.
  Example sentencesExamples
  They took him out on something that looked like a cross between a stretcher and a dentist's chair.
  On one stretcher was a local woman suffering from renal failure and in need of kidney dialysis, and on another a woman who was pregnant.
  Sirens blared around him as a stretcher, which supported a body blanketed in white, was moved into the ambulance.
  At last some hooded figures in orange reached out and grasped the stretcher's rails, pulling her safely inside.
  A transportation aide transports the patient via stretcher from the SDS area to the preoperative holding area.
  Incoming patients must be held there, in a temporary treatment stretcher, until a bed opens.
  The rider was treated at the scene and as in the first rescue, rescuers used a standard stretcher that has a single soft wheel mounted to it to traverse the trail with the injured woman.
  Should the procedure be modified if the patient walks to the OR as opposed to being brought in by stretcher?
  The patient then rests under observation until he or she is transported by stretcher to the OR.
  There were not even stretchers or wheelchairs to carry the sick and infirm.
  Before Katy could even get to her feet, she had been placed on a stretcher and wheeled inside.
  Beds were made into improvised stretchers to carry the dead and dying.
  A stretcher with a life support system was rushed towards the emergency room.
  She puts her clipboard in a tray attached to the head of Lucian's stretcher and sits forward, bridging her hands and resting her chin in them.
  He was found unconscious and a duty officer organised for him to be taken by stretcher to his room, but no one kept watch over the deceased to ensure that he was lying in a safe position.
  Escort personnel transport the patient to the radiology department by stretcher at the appropriate time.
  Your lower arthritic back is especially sore after you have spent nine hours on an emergency room stretcher.
  The circulating nurse or anesthesia care provider transports the patient to the OR via stretcher.
  They placed her on a back board and put her on a stretcher then the ambulance.
  By the time the first rescuers were on the scene it was already getting dark and extra lighting was needed, along with a stretcher, backboard, medical gases, vacuum mattress and first aid kits.
2A wooden frame over which a canvas is spread and tautened ready for painting.
（绷画布的）框
Example sentencesExamples
- The artist might attempt to disguise them by extending her unprimed canvas beyond the stretcher, suggesting an alternative reading of the work as art object.
- They were like bed frames, or big painting stretchers.
- Fortunately, the full lengths were not cut down, but were shortened by folding the unwanted canvas over a shorter stretcher.
- The paintings were then stretched on good quality lightweight stretchers.
- So the rest of the day is to be spent getting stretchers and canvases ready.
- Elsewhere, he simply stitched bags together and hung them on stretchers, forming grids that recall framed fabrics in ethnographic galleries.
- It is the skill of the craftsmen who produced the stretchers and frames that now becomes the subject of the viewer's interest.
- He first paints a black monochrome square at the center of a large piece of raw canvas that has been conventionally stapled to a stretcher.
- Finally, wall works measuring about 34 by 26 inches with softly rounded corners featured Iris prints on leather mounted on canvas stretchers.
- Another device he used to emphasize the objectness of his paintings was to leave exposed the ragged edge of the canvas and the staples used to attach it to the stretcher.
- I wanted to do a painting, but the costs of acrylics and stretchers for each of my 75 students was beyond my budget.
- Orazio did not say what he spent on linseed oil, which he could have bought for five or six pence a pint, or on his canvas and stretchers, but they were not very costly in relation to artists' fees.
- It is very difficult to see the canvas in most reproductions, but in the original it is possible to make out the stretcher with two of its diagonal wooden corner-struts.
- Despite the damage, the painting is on its original stretcher, has not been relined and is probably in its original frame.
- These looms were created from wooden stretcher bars, like the ones used to stretch painting canvas.
- Gilliam is known primarily as a Color School painter who ‘liberated’ the canvas from its stretcher.
- It was credible for the wall to look thickly mortared, but not for the wooden stretchers of a canvas, or a man's coat, to be similarly treated.
- Since then most canvas paintings have been attached to lightweight wooden frameworks or stretchers.
- The structure of the stretcher, the tautness of the canvas and the transparency of the paint contribute to the total effect.
- With scant regard for the convention of the stretcher as support, Farber's paintings are conceived as bifacial and may be installed recto or verso.
3A rod or bar joining and supporting chair legs.
（支撑椅腿的）横木，横档
Example sentencesExamples
- The stretcher configuration is also significant, for the placing of the medial stretcher well to the front, rather than mid-way between front and back legs, is entirely novel.
- Except for the legs and stretchers, which were beautifully carved and turned, the chairs were completely covered with upholstery.
- Despite the somewhat old-fashioned leg, the double-scrolled and finialled stretchers link it stylistically to the throne.
- They combine a joined front stretcher with turned side and back stretchers.
- Its seat is comprised of tongue-and-groove pieces, while the leg stretchers are doweled into place.
- Reassemble the leg and stretcher, adding carpenter's wood glue before inserting the stretcher into the hole.
- Chairs imported from New England, particularly Boston, influenced the design of this chair, especially in its stretchers, relatively light seat rails, and yoked crest.
- Boston was producing leather-back chairs during this period with very bold ball-ring-ball turned front stretchers.
- One needed a title, however, to appreciate the majesty of the tall, ostentatious chairs with upholstered, haughty-looking backs and stretchers reinforcing the legs.
- The rocker's stiles, arms, and stretchers were made from unmilled hickory sticks, occasionally with the bark left on.
- Later, upholstery covered the entire chair, except for the legs and stretchers.
- Even the swelled side stretchers are flatter and less graceful and seem to be the product of an efficient, and therefore presumably busy, shop.
- Position the stretchers and side rails over the holes and drive them into place with the mallet.
1. 3.1 A crosspiece in the bottom of a boat on which a rower's feet are braced.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The foot stretcher is easily positioned to achieve these positions by loosening the 3 wing nuts and moving the foot stretcher along the adjustment plates.
  This stretcher when incorporated with the camlock is able to suit any boat and is easy to adjust.
  A foot stretcher breakage in the Egyptian boat caused the second semi-final to be delayed.
4A brick or stone laid with its long side along the face of a wall.
横砌石，顺砖。比较HEADER （义项3）
Compare with header (sense 3)
Example sentencesExamples
- The bricks are laid in alternate pairs of headers and stretchers.
- Below the sills of these bedrooms are stone stretchers that extend from one column base to the next.
- Walls build using the traditional stretcher bond are just a half brick wide.
- To understand the following patterns, you'll want to know that stretchers are brick laid lengthwise along the wall.
- Water absorption testing of 18 stretcher bricks removed from the building revealed that all of the brick tested met the saturation coefficient requirement.
5informal, archaic An exaggeration or lie.
〈古，非正式〉夸大之辞，奇谈；谎话
Example sentencesExamples
- Mark Twain is quoted: "mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before."
- One way of doing that is to refer to prior unsworn occasions when you may have told the ‘stretcher’ in question

词汇	stretcher
释义	Definition of stretcher in English: stretcher noun ˈstrɛtʃəˈstrɛtʃər 1A framework of two poles with a long piece of canvas slung between them, used for carrying sick, injured, or dead people. 担架 Example sentencesExamples A group of nurses and soldiers in camouflage carrying stretchers rushed towards the scene. Several blackened prisoners were carried out helplessly on stretchers; they lay dying in front of us in the cold. Behind the band, they carried stretchers, symbolic of the operational role played by the bandsmen in action. Bystanders and ambulance workers made crude stretchers to carry the wounded to vehicles to take them to nearby hospitals. At any time of the day or night, a tall RAF corporal would be seen helping to carry a stretcher containing an injured soldier into the tent. It's a miracle how they carry those stretchers but they get through even though it takes ten men all day to move one stretcher case back three or four miles. As the captives escaped, residents and troops ran through the streets, and the wounded were carried off on stretchers. The injured man was carried on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance and rushed to Colchester General Hospital with a police escort. Hostages who were still conscious were led to safety, while others had to be carried on stretchers into waiting ambulances. After they were carried out on stretchers, paramedics checked them before they were taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital for treatment for minor injuries and shock. Emergency services were called and fire crew and paramedics strapped the two badly injured men onto stretchers before they were both airlifted to Wythenshawe Hospital, where they are currently being treated. Some of the injured were carried away on stretchers. Others were carried out on stretchers, covered in blood. Within minutes, the injured were being carried away on stretchers, clad in thermal blankets to keep them warm against shock. Government helicopters buzzed over the scene as rescuers tied the injured to stretchers before forming a human chain and using ropes to pull them up the slope. As soon as the lead ambulance arrived he was told who to evacuate and helped carry the injured on stretchers. The injured man was carried on a stretcher by firefighters up a steep embankment to a waiting ambulance. Other papers showed the rows of stretchers of dead children, their relatives bending over them. Emergency teams were seen carrying the injured away on stretchers, and a state transportation spokeswoman says two people had to be freed from the bus. One source put the total at 100 people carried out on stretchers or injured, another claimed 30 people were in intensive care in the days after the raid. Synonyms sedan chair, palanquin 2A wooden frame over which a canvas is spread and tautened ready for painting. （绷画布的）框 Example sentencesExamples The structure of the stretcher, the tautness of the canvas and the transparency of the paint contribute to the total effect. It is very difficult to see the canvas in most reproductions, but in the original it is possible to make out the stretcher with two of its diagonal wooden corner-struts. Fortunately, the full lengths were not cut down, but were shortened by folding the unwanted canvas over a shorter stretcher. These looms were created from wooden stretcher bars, like the ones used to stretch painting canvas. Since then most canvas paintings have been attached to lightweight wooden frameworks or stretchers. Despite the damage, the painting is on its original stretcher, has not been relined and is probably in its original frame. They were like bed frames, or big painting stretchers. It was credible for the wall to look thickly mortared, but not for the wooden stretchers of a canvas, or a man's coat, to be similarly treated. Finally, wall works measuring about 34 by 26 inches with softly rounded corners featured Iris prints on leather mounted on canvas stretchers. Elsewhere, he simply stitched bags together and hung them on stretchers, forming grids that recall framed fabrics in ethnographic galleries. With scant regard for the convention of the stretcher as support, Farber's paintings are conceived as bifacial and may be installed recto or verso. Gilliam is known primarily as a Color School painter who ‘liberated’ the canvas from its stretcher. Another device he used to emphasize the objectness of his paintings was to leave exposed the ragged edge of the canvas and the staples used to attach it to the stretcher. He first paints a black monochrome square at the center of a large piece of raw canvas that has been conventionally stapled to a stretcher. Orazio did not say what he spent on linseed oil, which he could have bought for five or six pence a pint, or on his canvas and stretchers, but they were not very costly in relation to artists' fees. So the rest of the day is to be spent getting stretchers and canvases ready. The paintings were then stretched on good quality lightweight stretchers. It is the skill of the craftsmen who produced the stretchers and frames that now becomes the subject of the viewer's interest. I wanted to do a painting, but the costs of acrylics and stretchers for each of my 75 students was beyond my budget. The artist might attempt to disguise them by extending her unprimed canvas beyond the stretcher, suggesting an alternative reading of the work as art object. 2.1with modifier A rod or frame used for expanding or tautening a specified thing. 撑杆；撑具；撑架 sail stretchers 帆架。 Example sentencesExamples Figure 21 illustrates four different glove stretchers that often do double duty as glove powder dispensers and hand measurers. We have rented a carpet stretcher, but are having problems getting the wrinkles out. Well, he said I needed a 'sail stretcher'. A sail stretcher is fastened to the sail at the meeting point between the foot and leech of the sail and can be secured to the sail spar adjacent the rear extremity thereof in any suitable manner. 3A rod or bar joining and supporting chair legs. （支撑椅腿的）横木，横档 Example sentencesExamples Boston was producing leather-back chairs during this period with very bold ball-ring-ball turned front stretchers. Except for the legs and stretchers, which were beautifully carved and turned, the chairs were completely covered with upholstery. One needed a title, however, to appreciate the majesty of the tall, ostentatious chairs with upholstered, haughty-looking backs and stretchers reinforcing the legs. Its seat is comprised of tongue-and-groove pieces, while the leg stretchers are doweled into place. Even the swelled side stretchers are flatter and less graceful and seem to be the product of an efficient, and therefore presumably busy, shop. Despite the somewhat old-fashioned leg, the double-scrolled and finialled stretchers link it stylistically to the throne. Chairs imported from New England, particularly Boston, influenced the design of this chair, especially in its stretchers, relatively light seat rails, and yoked crest. Later, upholstery covered the entire chair, except for the legs and stretchers. The stretcher configuration is also significant, for the placing of the medial stretcher well to the front, rather than mid-way between front and back legs, is entirely novel. The rocker's stiles, arms, and stretchers were made from unmilled hickory sticks, occasionally with the bark left on. Reassemble the leg and stretcher, adding carpenter's wood glue before inserting the stretcher into the hole. They combine a joined front stretcher with turned side and back stretchers. Position the stretchers and side rails over the holes and drive them into place with the mallet. 3.1 A board in a boat against which a rower presses the feet for support. （船上划船人的）蹬脚板 Example sentencesExamples The foot stretcher is easily positioned to achieve these positions by loosening the 3 wing nuts and moving the foot stretcher along the adjustment plates. A foot stretcher breakage in the Egyptian boat caused the second semi-final to be delayed. This stretcher when incorporated with the camlock is able to suit any boat and is easy to adjust. 4A brick or stone laid with its long side along the face of a wall. 横砌石，顺砖。比较HEADER （义项3） Compare with header (sense 3) Example sentencesExamples The bricks are laid in alternate pairs of headers and stretchers. Below the sills of these bedrooms are stone stretchers that extend from one column base to the next. Water absorption testing of 18 stretcher bricks removed from the building revealed that all of the brick tested met the saturation coefficient requirement. Walls build using the traditional stretcher bond are just a half brick wide. To understand the following patterns, you'll want to know that stretchers are brick laid lengthwise along the wall. 5archaic, informal An exaggeration or lie. 〈古，非正式〉夸大之辞，奇谈；谎话 Example sentencesExamples Mark Twain is quoted: "mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before." One way of doing that is to refer to prior unsworn occasions when you may have told the ‘stretcher’ in question verb ˈstrɛtʃə [with object] Carry (a sick or injured person) somewhere on a stretcher. 用担架抬送（病人，伤员） their striker had to be stretchered off following a tackle 他们的前锋在遭到阻截铲球后只得用担架抬出场外。 Example sentencesExamples The night was tinged with sadness for City by the sight of Cooper being stretchered from the field in the dying embers. He was stretchered off with a twisted knee during yesterday's game at Tannadice and is unlikely to play for Rangers again this season. One young woman was stretchered from the beach on a makeshift platform of planks and a rubber mat after tumbling from the rocks as she tried to escape a tear gas pellet. He was finally stretchered off by paramedics and taken to Leeds General Infirmary. When he collapsed it, he was stretchered off with a neck injury that, thankfully, revealed no fractures. I was stretchered off and they said it was a classic case of an anterior cruciate ligament injury. But 20 minutes later he was again stretchered off with a suspected cartilage problem. No one will truly believe he is injured today unless he is stretchered away with a limb hanging off. He was stretchered off and driven to hospital, where he remained for a fortnight and had the first major operation on his knee. The following year, a surgeon told her her career was over after she was stretchered off the track at the world championships with a ruptured Achilles tendon. He was stretchered off and taken immediately to hospital. He was stretchered into an ambulance and taken to hospital where he will remain overnight. After receiving treatment for 10 minutes, he was stretchered off the field to be replaced by Gamble. However, he was stretchered off later after a challenge for a loose ball. He was stretchered off with knee - ligament damage and looks destined to be sidelined for months. Wearing an oxygen mask and giving the thumbs-up to the cameras, Murphy was stretchered out of the conference hall. He lay unmoving for three minutes before he was stretchered to the dressing room and, it seemed, to the hospital. The man was conscious as an ambulance crew stretchered him into an ambulance before taking him to York District Hospital. Twenty-two team members attended and stretchered the woman from the fell with a suspected leg-fracture. He was stretchered off at Field Mill in obvious agony, but fears he could have suffered a break have been allayed. Rhymes etcher, fetcher, fletcher, lecher, sketcher Definition of stretcher in US English: stretcher nounˈstreCHərˈstrɛtʃər 1A framework of two poles with a long piece of canvas slung between them, used for carrying sick, injured, or dead people. 担架 Example sentencesExamples Other papers showed the rows of stretchers of dead children, their relatives bending over them. A group of nurses and soldiers in camouflage carrying stretchers rushed towards the scene. The injured man was carried on a stretcher by firefighters up a steep embankment to a waiting ambulance. One source put the total at 100 people carried out on stretchers or injured, another claimed 30 people were in intensive care in the days after the raid. Within minutes, the injured were being carried away on stretchers, clad in thermal blankets to keep them warm against shock. Hostages who were still conscious were led to safety, while others had to be carried on stretchers into waiting ambulances. Emergency teams were seen carrying the injured away on stretchers, and a state transportation spokeswoman says two people had to be freed from the bus. Bystanders and ambulance workers made crude stretchers to carry the wounded to vehicles to take them to nearby hospitals. After they were carried out on stretchers, paramedics checked them before they were taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital for treatment for minor injuries and shock. Emergency services were called and fire crew and paramedics strapped the two badly injured men onto stretchers before they were both airlifted to Wythenshawe Hospital, where they are currently being treated. The injured man was carried on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance and rushed to Colchester General Hospital with a police escort. Some of the injured were carried away on stretchers. Several blackened prisoners were carried out helplessly on stretchers; they lay dying in front of us in the cold. At any time of the day or night, a tall RAF corporal would be seen helping to carry a stretcher containing an injured soldier into the tent. Others were carried out on stretchers, covered in blood. Government helicopters buzzed over the scene as rescuers tied the injured to stretchers before forming a human chain and using ropes to pull them up the slope. It's a miracle how they carry those stretchers but they get through even though it takes ten men all day to move one stretcher case back three or four miles. Behind the band, they carried stretchers, symbolic of the operational role played by the bandsmen in action. As the captives escaped, residents and troops ran through the streets, and the wounded were carried off on stretchers. As soon as the lead ambulance arrived he was told who to evacuate and helped carry the injured on stretchers. Synonyms sedan chair, palanquin 1.1US A gurney. Example sentencesExamples They took him out on something that looked like a cross between a stretcher and a dentist's chair. On one stretcher was a local woman suffering from renal failure and in need of kidney dialysis, and on another a woman who was pregnant. Sirens blared around him as a stretcher, which supported a body blanketed in white, was moved into the ambulance. At last some hooded figures in orange reached out and grasped the stretcher's rails, pulling her safely inside. A transportation aide transports the patient via stretcher from the SDS area to the preoperative holding area. Incoming patients must be held there, in a temporary treatment stretcher, until a bed opens. The rider was treated at the scene and as in the first rescue, rescuers used a standard stretcher that has a single soft wheel mounted to it to traverse the trail with the injured woman. Should the procedure be modified if the patient walks to the OR as opposed to being brought in by stretcher? The patient then rests under observation until he or she is transported by stretcher to the OR. There were not even stretchers or wheelchairs to carry the sick and infirm. Before Katy could even get to her feet, she had been placed on a stretcher and wheeled inside. Beds were made into improvised stretchers to carry the dead and dying. A stretcher with a life support system was rushed towards the emergency room. She puts her clipboard in a tray attached to the head of Lucian's stretcher and sits forward, bridging her hands and resting her chin in them. He was found unconscious and a duty officer organised for him to be taken by stretcher to his room, but no one kept watch over the deceased to ensure that he was lying in a safe position. Escort personnel transport the patient to the radiology department by stretcher at the appropriate time. Your lower arthritic back is especially sore after you have spent nine hours on an emergency room stretcher. The circulating nurse or anesthesia care provider transports the patient to the OR via stretcher. They placed her on a back board and put her on a stretcher then the ambulance. By the time the first rescuers were on the scene it was already getting dark and extra lighting was needed, along with a stretcher, backboard, medical gases, vacuum mattress and first aid kits. 2A wooden frame over which a canvas is spread and tautened ready for painting. （绷画布的）框 Example sentencesExamples The artist might attempt to disguise them by extending her unprimed canvas beyond the stretcher, suggesting an alternative reading of the work as art object. They were like bed frames, or big painting stretchers. Fortunately, the full lengths were not cut down, but were shortened by folding the unwanted canvas over a shorter stretcher. The paintings were then stretched on good quality lightweight stretchers. So the rest of the day is to be spent getting stretchers and canvases ready. Elsewhere, he simply stitched bags together and hung them on stretchers, forming grids that recall framed fabrics in ethnographic galleries. It is the skill of the craftsmen who produced the stretchers and frames that now becomes the subject of the viewer's interest. He first paints a black monochrome square at the center of a large piece of raw canvas that has been conventionally stapled to a stretcher. Finally, wall works measuring about 34 by 26 inches with softly rounded corners featured Iris prints on leather mounted on canvas stretchers. Another device he used to emphasize the objectness of his paintings was to leave exposed the ragged edge of the canvas and the staples used to attach it to the stretcher. I wanted to do a painting, but the costs of acrylics and stretchers for each of my 75 students was beyond my budget. Orazio did not say what he spent on linseed oil, which he could have bought for five or six pence a pint, or on his canvas and stretchers, but they were not very costly in relation to artists' fees. It is very difficult to see the canvas in most reproductions, but in the original it is possible to make out the stretcher with two of its diagonal wooden corner-struts. Despite the damage, the painting is on its original stretcher, has not been relined and is probably in its original frame. These looms were created from wooden stretcher bars, like the ones used to stretch painting canvas. Gilliam is known primarily as a Color School painter who ‘liberated’ the canvas from its stretcher. It was credible for the wall to look thickly mortared, but not for the wooden stretchers of a canvas, or a man's coat, to be similarly treated. Since then most canvas paintings have been attached to lightweight wooden frameworks or stretchers. The structure of the stretcher, the tautness of the canvas and the transparency of the paint contribute to the total effect. With scant regard for the convention of the stretcher as support, Farber's paintings are conceived as bifacial and may be installed recto or verso. 3A rod or bar joining and supporting chair legs. （支撑椅腿的）横木，横档 Example sentencesExamples The stretcher configuration is also significant, for the placing of the medial stretcher well to the front, rather than mid-way between front and back legs, is entirely novel. Except for the legs and stretchers, which were beautifully carved and turned, the chairs were completely covered with upholstery. Despite the somewhat old-fashioned leg, the double-scrolled and finialled stretchers link it stylistically to the throne. They combine a joined front stretcher with turned side and back stretchers. Its seat is comprised of tongue-and-groove pieces, while the leg stretchers are doweled into place. Reassemble the leg and stretcher, adding carpenter's wood glue before inserting the stretcher into the hole. Chairs imported from New England, particularly Boston, influenced the design of this chair, especially in its stretchers, relatively light seat rails, and yoked crest. Boston was producing leather-back chairs during this period with very bold ball-ring-ball turned front stretchers. One needed a title, however, to appreciate the majesty of the tall, ostentatious chairs with upholstered, haughty-looking backs and stretchers reinforcing the legs. The rocker's stiles, arms, and stretchers were made from unmilled hickory sticks, occasionally with the bark left on. Later, upholstery covered the entire chair, except for the legs and stretchers. Even the swelled side stretchers are flatter and less graceful and seem to be the product of an efficient, and therefore presumably busy, shop. Position the stretchers and side rails over the holes and drive them into place with the mallet. 3.1 A crosspiece in the bottom of a boat on which a rower's feet are braced. Example sentencesExamples The foot stretcher is easily positioned to achieve these positions by loosening the 3 wing nuts and moving the foot stretcher along the adjustment plates. This stretcher when incorporated with the camlock is able to suit any boat and is easy to adjust. A foot stretcher breakage in the Egyptian boat caused the second semi-final to be delayed. 4A brick or stone laid with its long side along the face of a wall. 横砌石，顺砖。比较HEADER （义项3） Compare with header (sense 3) Example sentencesExamples The bricks are laid in alternate pairs of headers and stretchers. Below the sills of these bedrooms are stone stretchers that extend from one column base to the next. Walls build using the traditional stretcher bond are just a half brick wide. To understand the following patterns, you'll want to know that stretchers are brick laid lengthwise along the wall. Water absorption testing of 18 stretcher bricks removed from the building revealed that all of the brick tested met the saturation coefficient requirement. 5informal, archaic An exaggeration or lie. 〈古，非正式〉夸大之辞，奇谈；谎话 Example sentencesExamples Mark Twain is quoted: "mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before." One way of doing that is to refer to prior unsworn occasions when you may have told the ‘stretcher’ in question
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