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Truck, on Fleet St
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lorry
Alternative clues for the word lorry
Word definitions for lorry in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British English) A motor vehicle for transporting goods; a truck. 2 (context obsolete English) A large low horse-drawn wagon. 3 (context dated English) A small cart or wagon, as used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish. 4 (context ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a truck; a long, flat wagon," 1838, British railroad word, probably from verb lurry "to pull, tug" (1570s), of uncertain origin. Meaning "large motor vehicle for carrying goods" is first attested 1911.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides [syn: camion ]
Usage examples of lorry.
Breedy reckons the slogan was a threat and wanted us to go to the headmaster, but Breedy has been a nervous sort of man ever since there was a nasty accident when a car ran into his lorry nearly a year ago, and somebody got killed and others injured.
Boaz-Jachin saw his face still crying under the old black brimless hat that was not a skullcap and not a fez as the lorry, trailing its aroma of petrol, oranges, and orange-crate wood, pulled out into the road and away.
Battered lorries rumbling to and from the spaceport, carrying wooden crates and ancient-looking composite cargo-pods, some loaded up with homesteading gear.
She might have had the information that had been tortured out of Pargo to lead her there, without the necessity of following the lorry as she said she had done.
Lorry and Miss Pross are seen as narrowly English, provincial and unimaginative as the stereotype holds.
Lorry and Miss Pross are shown to be softening under the good influence of Lucie and her family, so that by the third part they are no longer stereotypes of an old England of which Dickens is critical.
Lorry, and Miss Pross is gradually transferred to the revolutionaries.
Outside, trucks were rumbling by in the night, big lorry trucks that Teasle knew would have soldiers in them.
Brigg screwed his eyes into his lids as they spurted by other trishaws, aimlessly driven lorries, and wandering cars.
It was always the same when trade was booming at the local wharves, and as the convoys of horsecarts and lorries lined up along Cotton Lane so the cafe became even fuller.
Mr Winters and dolls and Mr Hamid Aziz and, most of all, what you know about the fatal accident to a Mr Lorne, when the car in which he was a passenger collided with your lorry some months ago.
Lorne, who was sitting next Winters, was killed outright, being on the side next the lorry, and Halstock and his boy were hurt pretty serious, them being at the back, which took a lot of the impact as the car slewed round.
Brim immediately hauled the little starship around on a low-altitude trajectory perpendicular to the cableway, watching the lorry speed away in the distance.
Mum dips the cows, deworms them, brands them with our brand, feeds them up on the Rhodes grass until their skins are shiny and they are so fat it seems as if they might burst, and then sends them on the red lorry into Umtali, to the Cold Storage Corporation, to be sold as ration meat.
Jimmy Eaglewood until he got hit by a lorry and died after three hushed weeks in a coma.