0 someone who carries a stretcher, with another person at its other end, especially in a war or emergency
I was recently appointed official stretcher-bearer when the campaign group decided that it needed such an office.
A king in his castle can serve with as much selfless integrity as the stretcher-bearer.
He removed him to a place of safety and also brought in a stretcher-bearer who was wounded by the same sniper.
Cotter was there as a stretcher-bearer.
The nurses, dispensers, laboratory workers, clerks, stretcher-bearers and messengers must all come in as an essential part of the organisation.
In other words, when they want the trade unions to be the stretcher-bearers of the capitalist system, they turn not to the sweetheart associations but to the legitimate trade unions.
Later in the day he organised and led stretcher-bearers to bring in the wounded whom he had dressed.
Generally, senior commands disapproved of any slackening of the offensive for humanitarian reasons and so ordered their troops not to permit enemy stretcher-bearers to operate in no man's land.
