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Definition of Lorry
1. Noun. A large low horse-drawn wagon without sides.
2. Noun. A large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides.
Definition of Lorry
1. Noun. (British) A motor vehicle for transporting goods; a truck. ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) A large low horse-drawn wagon. ¹
3. Noun. (dated) A small cart or wagon, as used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish. ¹
4. Noun. (dated) A barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To soil, dirty, bespatter with mud or the like. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lorry
1. a type of wagon or truck [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lorry
Literary usage of Lorry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith (1862)
"This lorry was being loaded when the accident happened which is hereafter ...
The course of business as to loading was as follows:— Each lorry was in ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1871)
"This lorry was being loaded when the accident happened which is hereafter ...
The course of business as to loading was as follows:—Each lorry was in ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Queen's Bench, and by William Mawdesley Best, George James Philip Smith (1862)
"This lorry was being loaded when the accident happened which is hereafter ...
The course of business as to loading was as follows:— Each lorry was in ..."
4. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"the air of France ; and this consultation, dictated by Mademoiselle I'Espinasse,
was obtained by D'Alembert from his intimate friend lorry, one of the most ..."