After all this has been done, the funeral-procession begins. The stretcher is borne to the burialplace by male persons, even when the deceased is a woman; this work is to be done c…

This done, he sank on to a stretcher, and glanced meditatively about the room.

A twelve-by-fourteen canvas would not pin in his box, so he had to make a stretcher for it, and very neatly he made it, out of strips of butter-box.

But with Germany’s Olaf Scholz and France’s Emmanuel Macron facing red cards at home, Spain’s Pedro Sánchez briefly stretchered off[…], Giorgia Meloni – post-fascist poster girl tu…

Claire Elise Tisdall, a volunteer nurse working in London, watched as a soldier was strechered past her one night.