lorry
Chiefly British. a motor truck, especially a large one.
any of various conveyances running on rails, as for transporting material in a mine or factory.
a long, low, horse-drawn wagon without sides.
Origin of lorry
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How to use lorry in a sentence
“I sincerely hope this woman is flattened by a lorry,” prays another.
When Fame Is the Reason for Abortion, Does That Make It Wrong? | Tauriq Moosa | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe lorry hit him so hard he was dead by the time the nearside front wheels rolled over his neck.
They crawled down off the lorry, and took off their caps, and ate every particle of food in the house.
The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts RinehartAnd one day a lorry, piled high with boxes, rolled and thumped down the street, and halted by Ren.
The Amazing Interlude | Mary Roberts RinehartI was wanted to take ten officers at once and to jump into a motor lorry, and go with a party of 30 others to the trenches.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton Laurie
We raced our lorry through country looking just like the Romney Marshes, Sussex.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie | George Brenton LaurieAdded to these difficulties, a motor-lorry had stuck on the way up and blocked our transport for the night.
The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade | Edward Lord Gleichen
British Dictionary definitions for lorry
/ (ˈlɒrɪ) /
a large motor vehicle designed to carry heavy loads, esp one with a flat platform: US and Canadian name: truck See also articulated vehicle
off the back of a lorry British informal a phrase used humorously to imply that something has been dishonestly acquired: it fell off the back of a lorry
any of various vehicles with a flat load-carrying surface, esp one designed to run on rails
Origin of lorry
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