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noun

Lorry, Lorrie n. (pl. lorries)

A small cart or wagon moving on rails, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.

A motorized wheeled land vehicle, esp. a large one, with a cab for the driver and a separate rear compartment for transporting freight; called truck in the U. S. (Brit.)

Synonyms: camion.

A large low horse-drawn wagon without sides.

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Etymology of 'Lorry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lorry" Quotes from Famous Books

... The last Staff officer he had seen had told him that, as far as he knew, they had pulled out to rest in some dug-outs about four miles farther on—dug-outs which had only recently been taken from the Germans. To start with he had got on to a lorry, but when darkness fell, and the total progression had been one mile, he decided to walk and save time. Occasionally the lights of a car shone in his face, as its infuriated occupant broke every rule of the Somme roads by double banking; that is, trying to pass the vehicles in front. ...

— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile

... the Bridge incessantly. Sometimes in the midst of carts and omnibuses a lorry will appear with great forest trees chained to it. Then, perhaps, a mason's van with newly lettered tombstones recording how some one loved some one who is buried at Putney. Then the motor car in front jerks forward, and the tombstones ...

— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf

... of October 22 the train party got off as quick as possible, and about 4 p.m. a big lorry came for our equipment. We loaded it, seven of us mounted on the top, and the rest went in two of our own cars. The scene was really intensely comic. Seven Scottish women balanced precariously on the pile of luggage; a ...

— Elsie Inglis - The Woman with the Torch • Eva Shaw McLaren

... the landlord of the inn this morning, saying that by direction of Mr. Bolton—that is Sidney, you know—he was sending the mummy in its case to Gartley on a lorry, and that it would arrive at ...

— The Green Mummy • Fergus Hume

... upright in his chair, gazing at Malcolm Sage as if he had been requested to supply two lorry-loads of archangels. ...

— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins

... won't object to waiting, unless he wants to rouse suspicion. Now I do object." And here Dick laughed. "Why," he went on, "with your way of doing things, they'd have to arrest a hundred witnesses every time a lorry ran into ...

— Ambrotox and Limping Dick • Oliver Fleming

Words linked to "Lorry" : camion, truck, wagon, motortruck, waggon, tipper lorry, articulated lorry