Usually means: Device for carrying injured people.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. stretcher: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stretcher: Merriam-Webster
  3. stretcher: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stretcher: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stretcher: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stretcher: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stretcher, stretcher: Wordnik
  8. stretcher: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Stretcher: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. stretcher: Wiktionary
  11. stretcher: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. stretcher: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. stretcher: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. stretcher: Dictionary.com
  15. stretcher: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stretcher (disambiguation), Stretcher (furniture), Stretcher: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stretcher: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stretcher: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stretcher: Rhymezone
  20. stretcher: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stretcher: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. STRETCHER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. stretcher: FreeDictionary.org
  24. stretcher: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. stretcher: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. stretcher: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. Stretcher: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stretcher: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. STRETCHER: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Stretcher, stretcher: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. stretcher: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. stretcher: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stretcher: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stretcher: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Stretcher: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  2. STRETCHER: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  3. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See stretchering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who, or that which, stretches.
noun:  A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
noun:  A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
noun:  A device to stretch shoes or gloves.
noun:  A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.
noun:  (architecture) A piece of timber used in building.
noun:  (slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.
noun:  (nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.
noun:  One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.
noun:  (obsolete) A penis, especially a long penis.
verb:  (transitive) To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.

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