crinoline stretcher

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noun

(on a Windsor chair) a stretcher having an inwardly curved piece connecting the front legs, and connected to the back legs by short, straight pieces.

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How to use crinoline stretcher in a sentence

And the next time his friend saw Moses, it was online; his bloody body was slapped on a stretcher.
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They carry it like a stretcher, though they're missing one stretcher-bearer.
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Paramedics now headed into the shop with a stretcher to aid the gunman.
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There was a stretcher near their position— someone had brought it out earlier and leaned it up near the truck.
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Prep work now short- circuited, Carter kicked the ammo cans out of the way and snatched up the stretcher.
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It is not he who would write virtuous tirades against painting, rougeing, and the crinoline.
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They dragged him back clear of any further falls, and improvised a stretcher on which to carry home his now unconscious body.
The Underworld|James C. Welsh
The stretcher-bearers brought the latter in, and I sent for the doctor at once, but he could only pronounce him to be dead also!
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Four officers carried the stretcher, and about six others followed behind.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie|George Brenton Laurie
Well away from the enemy the soldier is borne on a stretcher, sewn up in his blankets and wrapped in a flag.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie|George Brenton Laurie