Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A metal stretcher with wheeled legs, used for transporting patients.

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  • noun US A stretcher having wheeled legs.

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  • noun a metal stretcher with wheels

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Probably after J. Theodore Gurney, American inventor who patented a type of wheeled horse-drawn cab in 1883.]

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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.

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Examples

  • By reference to a new (to us) photograph, we see that this transfer did take place on film, but the "gurney" is used to transport the bodies of two victims, the other also the body of a girl, which looks rather like that transported by the man we call "White Tee-shirt".

    We need to know the truth Richard 2006

  • I was quite surprised when I visited the mpsh in gurney plaza in penang that it didn't have that many books.

    A Quick Guide to Bookshop Chains Sharon Bakar 2006

  • Ironically, the Popular in gurney plaza had more fiction than mpsh.

    A Quick Guide to Bookshop Chains Sharon Bakar 2006

  • I could only shrug, until the Cop who showed up, suggested that the drooling, flogged patient on the gurney was an epileptic.

    Torture by the State is Wrong 2008

  • It would more accurately be described as a gurney that also sits up and rolls over the toilet.

    Things that crack me up #47 Kay Olson 2008

  • I mean, even the word "gurney" sounds cooler when said with a lovely, polite British accent.

    Archive 2008-01-01 2008

  • I mean, even the word "gurney" sounds cooler when said with a lovely, polite British accent.

    Britney Hits Fan; Shit to Follow 2008

  • We can see that it is at the bottom of the mound of debris, on a relatively flat surface and it is likely that the "gurney" itself has been wheeled to the position.

    We need to know the truth Richard 2006

  • SANCHEZ: So essentially what you're saying is rescue guys are going to have to repel down there, and then repel back up with him in some kind of gurney or stretcher?

    CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2007 2007

  • They had found him and put him into some kind of gurney stretcher kind of thing, and then American coalition forces arrived immediately thereafter on site.

    CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2006 2006

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