Gurney meaning

gûr'nē
A metal stretcher with wheeled legs, used for transporting patients.
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A stretcher or cot on wheels, used in hospitals to move patients.
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(US) A stretcher having wheeled legs.
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Origin of gurney

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.

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.

  • However, as the elevator had a gurney in it, there was not enough room to clear the way.

  • In 1866 his remaining property was lost in the banking failure of Overend & Gurney.

  • Also Gurney had an open invitation to play the grand piano in the Redlands drawing-room.

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