gurney

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noun

A stretcher having wheeled legs.

“The death row convict was strapped into the gurney in order to be given the lethal injection.”

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Meanings

gurney1

noungurney (plural gurneys)

plural gurneys

  1. USA stretcher having wheeled legs.

    The death row convict was strapped into the gurney in order to be given the lethal injection.

    2 more examples

    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.

    2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, paperback edition, Fourth Estate, page 22

    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.

    2005, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, Number 506: The Talk, Part 7

    Synonyms: trolley

Gurney2

proper nounGurney (plural Gurneys)

plural Gurneys

  1. A surname.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA stretcher having wheeled legs.

Similar
trolley

Origin

gurney · noun

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.

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Gurney · proper noun

English surname of Norman origin, from Gournay-en-Bray in Seine-Maritime, France. Sometimes also from Great Gornhay in Tiverton, Devon, for which see Garnsey.

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Translations

Arabic مِحَفَّة
  • مِحَفَّة (miḥaffa)a stretcher having wheeled legs
Bulgarian носилка на колела
  • носилка на колела (nosilka na kolela)a stretcher having wheeled legs
Catalan llitera
  • lliteraa stretcher having wheeled legs
Chinese Mandarin 輪床 /轮床
  • 輪床 /轮床 (lúnchuáng)a stretcher having wheeled legs
Czech vozík
  • vozíka stretcher having wheeled legs
Danish båre, bårevogn
  • bårea stretcher having wheeled legs
  • bårevogna stretcher having wheeled legs
Dutch baar, draagbaar
  • baara stretcher having wheeled legs
  • draagbaara stretcher having wheeled legs
  • brancarda stretcher having wheeled legs
Esperanto brankardo
  • brankardoa stretcher having wheeled legs
Finnish pyörälliset paarit, paarit
  • pyörälliset paarita stretcher having wheeled legs
  • paarita stretcher having wheeled legs
French civière, brancard
  • civièrea stretcher having wheeled legs
  • brancarda stretcher having wheeled legs
German Rolltrage, Fahrtrage
  • Rolltragea stretcher having wheeled legs
  • Fahrtragea stretcher having wheeled legs
  • Tragea stretcher having wheeled legs
Hungarian (kerekes) hordágy, betegszállító kocsi
  • (kerekes) hordágya stretcher having wheeled legs
  • betegszállító kocsia stretcher having wheeled legs
Italian barella
  • barellaa stretcher having wheeled legs
Japanese ガーニー
  • ガーニー (gānī)a stretcher having wheeled legs
Māori kauamo wīra
  • kauamo wīraa stretcher having wheeled legs
Polish nosze na kółkach, łóżko szpitalne na kółkach
  • nosze na kółkacha stretcher having wheeled legs
  • łóżko szpitalne na kółkacha stretcher having wheeled legs
Portuguese marquesa, maca
  • marquesaa stretcher having wheeled legs
  • macaa stretcher having wheeled legs
Russian ката́лка
  • ката́лка (katálka)a stretcher having wheeled legs

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with gurney

journeyERNIEBernietourneyEarnieChernyturnyyrneh
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Cite this entry
APA

gurney. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gurney

MLA

“gurney.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gurney. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “gurney,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gurney.

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