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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Chiefly British A motor truck.

Wiktionary

  1. n. UK A motor vehicle for transporting goods; a truck.
  2. n. obsolete A large low horse-drawn wagon.
  3. n. dated A small cart or wagon, as used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish.
  4. n. dated A barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.
  5. v. transitive To soil, dirty, bespatter with mud or the like.

Etymologies

  1. Origin obscure. Perhaps from English dialectal lurry ("to lug or pull about, drag"). Perhaps of North Germanic origin, related to Norwegian lurja, lorja, lerja ("wet, shapeless lump"), Norwegian lura ("cow-dung"), see lurt. (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps akin to dialectal lurry, to lug, haul. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Turning Wheels organised two blockades at the Marianhill toll plaza on the N3 near Durban last month to highlight what it called lorry drivers 'exploitation and unfair working conditions.”

    ANC Daily News Briefing

  • “Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste -- ditching the dustbin lorry ...”

    The Huffington Post: French Towns Swap Garbage Trucks For Horse-Drawn Carts

  • “Perpignan is one of 60 French towns that have struck upon a cheaper and greener way to collect household waste -- ditching the dustbin lorry in favour of a horse and cart”

    The Huffington Post: French Towns Swap Garbage Trucks For Horse-Drawn Carts

  • “Surely, I think, McKellan's Magneto would raise every car, van and lorry from the bridge, shatter it to a powder of steel, and fuse that steel into a new bridge, into something more magnificent in its slender, shining subtlety than that mere lumpen mass of man's construction, ripped from the earth and dumped in its new position.”

    On the Sublime

  • “The lorry is said to have been on the wrong side of the road.”

    Archive 2008-04-01

  • “Shares in German lorry maker MAN shot up on a newspaper report that Volkswagen is poised to make a full takeover bid for it.”

    euronews

  • “For a man in such straits as I now found myself, the hire of a lorry was a consideration; and yet even that I could have faced, if I had had anywhere to drive to after it was hired.”

    The Wrecker

  • “The driver of the lorry was a 55-year-old man from Bromsgrove in Worcestershire.”

    BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition

  • “The driver of the lorry was a 55-year-old man from the Bromsgrove area of the Midlands.”

    Home | Mail Online

  • “The articulated lorry, which is an empty oil carrier, has gone onto its side on the roundabout outside Dock Gate No. 2 in Walton Avenue.”

    Evening Star News

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. vehicle
  1. rolley

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. waggon
  1. wagon
  1. truck
  1. motortruck

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. van
  2. taxi
  3. sedan
  4. hearse
  1. tractor
  2. ambulance
  3. buggy
  4. waggon
  1. automobile
  2. dray
  3. truck
  4. wag
  1. Jeep
  2. bus
  3. wagon
  4. bicycle
  1. motorcycle
  2. tanker
  3. locomotive
  4. pedestrian
  1. bulldozer
  2. trailer
  3. chaise
  4. carryall

rhymes (46)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Corey
  2. Corrie
  3. Cory
  4. Dorey
  5. Dorrie
  6. Florey
  7. Florrie
  8. Flory
  9. Gorey
  1. Korey
  2. Kory
  3. Lauri
  4. Laurie
  5. Lawrie
  6. Lori
  7. Lorie
  8. Maury
  9. Montessori
  1. Norrie
  2. Norry
  3. Rory
  4. Tori
  5. Tory
  6. astore
  7. cacciatore
  8. corrie
  9. coury
  1. dory
  2. flory
  3. glory
  4. gory
  5. hoary
  6. inventory
  7. lori
  8. lorrie
  9. lory
  1. lowrie
  2. pylori
  3. quarry
  4. rory
  5. signori
  6. storey
  7. storie
  8. story
  9. tori
  1. tory

reverse dictionary (4)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. Lowry
  1. larry
  1. pull-in
  1. pull-up

tags (2)

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  1. British
  1. transportation

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  • yarb Both had been injured when a lorry shed
    its load of Portaloo site-lavatories
    impartially on a bus-queue.

    - Peter Reading, Admissions, from Diplopic, 1983 Jun 30, 2008

  • seanahan More commonly today used in British English to describe trucks larger than a pickup. Dec 28, 2007

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