gurney

[ gur-nee ]

noun

, plural gur·neys.

1. a flat, padded table or stretcher with legs and wheels, for transporting patients or bodies.

gurney

¹

/ ˈɡɜːnɪ /

noun

1. a wheeled stretcher for transporting hospital patients

Gurney

²

/ ˈɡɜːnɪ /

noun

1. GurneyIvor (Bertie)18901937MBritishWRITING: poetMUSIC: composer Ivor ( Bertie ). 1890–1937, British poet and composer, noted esp for his songs and his poems of World War I

Word History and Origins

Origin of gurney¹

First recorded in 1935–40; of uncertain origin; perhaps after J. Theodore Gurney, American inventor, who invented a two-wheeled horse-drawn cab in 1883

Word History and Origins

Origin of gurney¹

C20: of unknown origin

Example Sentences

The hospital was in chaos and the wards were packed, with all 708 covid beds occupied—so 69-year-old Joseph Paul Alvares, a cancer survivor, had to lie on a gurney for nearly three days for a bed to become available.

From MIT Technology Review

Diaz and Sanchez wheeled their patient toward the back entrance of the emergency department, where they joined a phalanx of other gurneys.

From ProPublica

Members of his crew, recently arrived from Mumbai, were maneuvering around vestigial baby cots and gurneys.

From MIT Technology Review

When the family went into the hospital room, Young was lying on a gurney.

From ProPublica

At the company’s flagship Los Angeles hospital, persistent elevator breakdowns sometimes require emergency room nurses to wheel patients on gurneys across a public street as a security guard attempts to halt traffic.

From ProPublica

“He was trying to talk, ripping his head and shoulders off the gurney,” Fretland said.

From The Daily Beast

Myers and Gurney felt such actions were a means to validate the report.

From The Daily Beast

Often these people end up on a special kind of board with legs that fold out, a gurney.

From The Daily Beast

Lockett began to convulse violently, his head and chest rising up off the gurney multiple times as he called out, “Oh, man.”

From The Daily Beast

Less than 10 minutes later, the attendants wheeled out the gurney, which now bore a black body bag.

From The Daily Beast

"She doesn't know anything you want to know," exclaimed Eliza Gurney, coming into the room.

From Project Gutenberg

Miss Gurney was not a beautiful woman at best, and her rage transformed her into a veritable termagant.

From Project Gutenberg

There are no women sufficiently interested in his death to be suspected of it except Letitia and Eliza Gurney.

From Project Gutenberg

She suppressed a shriek at the moment; but she could not tell Mr. Gurney of it afterward, without tears.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Gurney was very gentle; but, as he said, what could he suggest but indigestion, or some such cause of nervous disturbance?

From Project Gutenberg

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