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Gurney

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A stretcher having wheeled legs. US

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

  2. 2
    a metal stretcher with wheels wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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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