gurney
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈɡɜrni/
- US
:
camilla
- An orderly approaches the gurney with Sam's body and begins pushing it toward the elevator.
And Oscar is being placed on the Gurney.
- And Oscar is being placed on the Gurney.
- But she would take the cauterizing iron and and create the brand to a woman who was strapped to a Gurney.
- There's my father laying on a Gurney, just dead.
- Now you see a dude on a Gurney just laid out completely flat.
- They had him on like a Gurney pushing him around, which is weird.
Examples
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All right, slide the gurney out.
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Let's get this gurney up!
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OK, get me on the gurney, quick.
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We need a gurney right away, please!
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- Move the gurney over here.
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Alone with my sick twin sister, I stepped up to the gurney and took her cold hand in mine.
Fiction book (1995) -
He was on a gurney when I got the call.
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A doctor and two nurses wheel a gurney in front of them while Bob and Reed trail behind.
Fiction book (1993) -
The mood is suddenly fast and urgent as a gurney is wheeled rapidly through the doors.
Fiction book (1992) -
He was transported to the hospital on a gurney after the accident.
Synonyms
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3.1
A light frame with cloth used to carry sick or injured people
How Portable
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gurney may come from a family name that became linked to the wheeled beds used in hospitals long ago, so people began to call a wheeled stretcher a 'gurney'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture a small hospital 'cart' with a name on it carrying a patient.