gurney

noun

gur·ney ˈgər-nē

plural gurneys

: a wheeled cot or stretcher

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Eventually, Daryl, Carol (Melissa McBride), Judith on a gurney and the rest of the group make it from the hospital and find Yumiko's doctor brother Tomi (Ian Anthony Dale), who gets to work on Judith.

Breanne L. Heldman, Peoplemag, 20 Nov. 2022 This gurney sounds like seagulls, which sound like seagulls, which feels like grief in all of its hypersensitivity and bewilderment.

Chris Richards, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022 Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Kareim McKnight remembered being handcuffed and strapped into a gurney on June 13 when the Vallejo resident saw a San Francisco paramedic approach with a syringe.

Mallory Moench, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2022 Holman has retained possession of the equipment used when preparing Miller for execution on September 22, 2022, including the gurney, Raybon noted in his affidavit.

Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 27 Oct. 2022 The idiom of Formula 1 is a Ph.D.-level patter of ride heights, tire-degradation curves, strat modes, and gurney flaps.

Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2022 Chukwu places the lens just behind a gurney, only to pan up and reveal his unsettling remains.

Robert Daniels, Time, 14 Oct. 2022 One participant shows up with what looks like a gurney hitched to the back of his longboard.

WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022 We're then taken, immediately, to a flashback sequence where Kreese is rolled in on a gurney to a medical examiner's office—except his stab wounds aren't stab wounds.

Evan Romano, Men's Health, 11 Sep. 2022 See More

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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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