gurney

nounattested in dialogue

A stretcher having wheeled legs.

noun

1
A stretcher having wheeled legs.
The death row convict was strapped into the gurney in order to be given the lethal injection.
Yet her vision has narrowed strangely (good, for she was in a medical facility, if she were having a hemorrhage or a stroke it could not be happening at a more convenient time) so that she was able to see little in the fluorescent-lit space except the man who lay motionless on a gurney beneath the strongest of the lights.
I’m pretty sure I didn’t actively steer towards the tree, but… I don’t know. I just remember that wave of despair and then the EMTs pulling me out of the car and putting me on a gurney.

Etymology

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. For the surname, see Gurney.

Forms

plural: gurneys

Guo · A surname.Gupta · An Indian surname.gurgling · A gurgling sound.

gurney · A stretcher having wheeled legs.

Gurney · A surname.guru · In Indian traditions: a spiritual teacher who transmits…Gus · A diminutive of the male given name Augustus.

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