English

Noun

stretcher case ‎(plural stretcher cases)

1. An injured person who needs to be carried on a stretcher.
   • 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 180:

     We filled two cars with stretcher cases as they came up from the cellar of the post and as I shut the door of the second car and fastened it I felt the rain on my face turn to snow.