stretcher

noun

• 1a framework of two poles with a long piece of canvas slung between them, used for carrying sick, injured, or dead people.

• 2a wooden frame over which a canvas is spread and tautened ready for painting.
• [with modifier] a rod or frame used for expanding or tautening a specified thing:sail stretchers

• 3a rod or bar joining and supporting chair legs.
• a board in a boat against which a rower presses the feet for support.

• 4a brick or stone laid with its long side along the face of a wall. Compare with header (sense 3).

• 5 archaic, informal an exaggeration or lie.

verb

• carry (a sick or injured person) somewhere on a stretcher:their striker had to be stretchered off following a tackle