gurney

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English - Turkish
Tekerlekli sedye
sedye

Tom tekerlekli bir sedyeye sarılı uyandı. - Tom woke up strapped to a gurney.

English - English
A stretcher having wheeled legs

I’m pretty sure I didn’t actively steer towards the tree, but… I don’t know. I just remember that wave of despair and then the EMTs pulling me out of the car and putting me on a gurney.

{i} wheeled stretcher used for transporting patients
a metal stretcher with wheels
A gurney is a bed on wheels that is used in hospitals for moving sick or injured people. a long narrow table with wheels used for moving sick people in a hospital (Gurney cab (19-20 centuries), a type of horse-drawn vehicle invented by J. T. Gurney of Boston, Massachusetts)

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Joseph Gurney Cannon
born May 7, 1836, Guilford county, N.C., U.S. died Nov. 12, 1926, Danville, Ill. U.S. politician. He began practicing law in Illinois in 1859. Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1872, he served 46 years (1873-91, 1893-1913, 1915-23). A staunchly conservative Republican, he used his power as speaker (1903-11) in a partisan manner. In 1910 a coalition of Democrats and insurgent Republicans passed a resolution that made the speaker ineligible for membership on the rules committee, the main source of his power. Personally well liked, he was popularly known as "Uncle Joe
Sir Samuel John Gurney 2nd Baronet Hoare
also called (from 1944) Viscount Templewood (of Chelsea) born Feb. 24, 1880, London, Eng. died May 7, 1959, London British statesman. As secretary of state for India (1931-35), he had the immense task of developing and defending in debate the new Indian constitution and was a chief architect of the Government of India Act (1935). He became foreign secretary (1935) but was forced to resign for his role in developing the unpopular Hoare-Laval Pact. As home secretary (1937-39), he helped develop the Munich agreement, which marked him as an appeaser and damaged his reputation. In World War II he served as ambassador to Spain (1940-44)
gurneys
plural of gurney
gurney

    Turkish pronunciation

    gırni

    Pronunciation

    /ˈgərnē/ /ˈɡɜrniː/

    Etymology

    [ 'g&r-nE ] (noun.) 1939. 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.
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