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Definition of "gurney" []

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

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "gurney" in a sentence
  • "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"."
  • "I was quite surprised when I visited the mpsh in gurney plaza in penang that it didn't have that many books."
  • "Ironically, the Popular in gurney plaza had more fiction than mpsh."