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Definition of Gurney
1. Noun. A metal stretcher with wheels.
Definition of Gurney
1. Noun. (American English) A stretcher having wheeled legs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gurney
1. a wheeled cot [n -NEYS]
Medical Definition of Gurney
1. A stretcher or cot with wheels used to transport hospital patients. Origin: Scottish gurn, to grimace in pain; Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, British physician and inventor, 1793-1875 (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gurney
| gurlier gurliest gurling gurls gurly gurmies gurmy gurn gurnard gurnards | gurned gurner gurners gurnet gurnets gurney (current term) gurneys gurniad gurning gurns | gurrah gurrahs gurrier gurriers gurries gurrnki gurrnkis gurry |
Literary usage of Gurney
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1865)
"There is at Keswick a good portrait of Mr. gurney when about twenty years old,
... The bulk of Mr. Hudson gurney's property goes to Mr. John Henry gurney, ..."
2. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"I did not know jjr gurney myself, but most of my friends did; ... But the good
things which were told me of Mr gurney I find to be very much more than ..."
3. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1897)
"gurney on a New-Zealand Owl. [The New Zealand Owl ... Besides the examples
mentioned by Mr. gurney, a living individual of this Owl «as obtained by the ..."
4. A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815 by Spencer Walpole (1890)
"Hudson gurney, the member for Newton, a partner in the great Norfolk bank of ...
gurney had persuaded himself that the- suppression of £1 notes would reduce ..."
5. A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present by Joseph Sabin, Wilberforce Eames, Bibliographical Society of America, Robert William Glenroie Vail (1875)
"gurney (Joseph). Arguments of Counsel in the Cases of the Snipe, the Martha, ...
29308 gurney (JJ) Familiar Letters to Henry Clay of Kentucky, describing A ..."
6. Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States by Frank Crosby (1865)
"gurney. This letter was written by the President prior to his reelection to Mrs.
Eliza P. gurney, an American lady, the widow of the late well-known Friend ..."
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