stretcher-bearer

[ strech-er-bair-er ]

/ ˈstrɛtʃ ərˌbɛər ər /

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noun

a person who helps carry a stretcher, as in removing wounded from a battlefield.

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Origin of stretcher-bearer

First recorded in 1875–80

Words nearby stretcher-bearer

stress ulcers, stress urinary incontinence, stretch, stretch a point, stretcher, stretcher-bearer, stretchie, stretching course, stretch limo, stretch mark, stretchmarks

How to use stretcher-bearer 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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There is a potential standard-bearer for the tradition shared by RFK, Gary Hart, and even Hunter S. Thompson.
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They carry it like a stretcher, though they're missing one stretcher-bearer.
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So why, in 2014, is the superhero standard-bearer so minority-averse?
Fear of a Minority Superhero: Marvel's Obsession with White Guys Saving the World|Marlow Stern|August 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Paramedics now headed into the shop with a stretcher to aid the gunman.
Brooklyn Shooting Hits Close to Bill de Blasio’s Park Slope Home|Michael Daly|July 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What the armor-bearer was for the warlike races of old, such is the tchbukdi for their degenerate descendants.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
The poor devil willingly undertook to deliver it, and the marshal, as directed, caused the bearer to receive a hearty flogging.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
The color-bearer went down, but the flag was seized by Randolph Hamilton, and held aloft.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
Summoning a fruit-seller, the bearer led the Gwalior men to the rendezvous named and distributed mangoes amongst them.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
The court held that the checks were not payable to bearer and that the bank was not protected in paying them.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles

British Dictionary definitions for stretcher-bearer

stretcher-bearer

noun

a person who helps to carry a stretcher, esp in wartime

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