English
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Etymology
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
Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-��(r)ni|-��(r)ni
Noun
en-noun
- US a stretcher having wheeled legs
Quotations
#*2001, w:Joyce Carol Oates|Joyce Carol Oates, w:Middle Age: A Romance|Middle Age: A Romance, Fourth Estate, paperback edition, page 22
#*: 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.
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