gurney

noun

gur·​ney ˈgər-nē How to pronounce gurney (audio)
plural gurneys
: a wheeled cot or stretcher

Examples of gurney in a Sentence

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The news segment showed my corpse being wheeled down a hallway on a gurney before subsequently sliding into an MRI. Hazlitt, 18 June 2025 Hunt briefly shook, gasped and raised his head off the gurney. Arkansas Online, 11 June 2025 The demo opened with the distraught heroine, Grace Ashford, strapped upside down to a medical gurney, her blood being siphoned by what looked like a transfusion bottle. Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 11 June 2025 Periodically, emergency workers wheeled victims with neck braces on toward ambulances and loaded them in on gurneys. Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 18 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for gurney

Word History

Etymology

probably ultimately from Gurney cab type of horse-drawn cab with a rear entrance, from J. Theodore Gurney, who patented such a cab in Boston in 1883

First Known Use

1939, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of gurney was in 1939

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“Gurney.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gurney. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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gurney

noun
gur·​ney ˈgər-nē How to pronounce gurney (audio)
plural gurneys
: a wheeled cot or stretcher
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