diamond carry

English

Etymology

From diamond + carry. The four people doing the carrying resemble the four points of a diamond shape.

Noun

diamond carry (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, first aid) A very stable method of carrying a spine board with one carrier at the head end, one at the foot end and one at each side.
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