noun
pl. -·neys a stretcher or cot on wheels, used in hospitals to move patients
Origin of gurney
from uncertain or unknown; perhapsgurney
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gurney
noun
pl. gur·neysA metal stretcher with wheeled legs, used for transporting patients.
Origin of gurney
Probably after J. Theodore Gurney , American inventor who patented a type of wheeled horse-drawn cab in 1883
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Origin
Unknown. Possibly from Gurney cab, a type of horse-drawn cab on wheels named after Theodore Gurney, the US inventor credited with creating and patenting it in about 1883.
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Sentence Examples
- She woke Sofi with a touch and tugged the gurney down to the emergency room.
- She followed the gurney out and watched as they lifted it into the helicopter.
- He took home with him a "protest" against the American Colonization Society, signed by Wilberforce, Zachary Macaulay, Samuel Gurney, William Evans, S.
- Joseph John Gurney of Norwich, a brother of Elizabeth Fry, by means of his high social position and his various writings (some published before 1835), was the most prominent actor in this movement.
- From William Bisschop, a companion of the king's murderers, Thomas Gurney and John Maltravers.
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