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▪ I. lorry, n.|ˈlɒrɪ, ˈlʌrɪ|
Also 9 lorrie, lurrie, larry, lurry.
[Of obscure etymology; cf. dial. lurry to pull, drag.]
1. a. A long flat wagon without sides running on four low wheels. Also, a truck or wagon used on railways or tramways.
1838Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 115/1 There was a luggage lorry..between the engine and carriages for passengers. Ibid. 145/1 A luggage train was perceived..with three lurries attached to it. 1851Illustr. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 256 Liverpool town float, lorrie and coal cart. 1855Mrs. Gaskell North & S. vii, Great loaded lurries blocked up the not over-wide thoroughfares. 1863P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 255 The plates are conveyed from the furnaces to the rolls on long iron trucks or lurries. The wheels of the lurrie run in grooves. 1879J. Fothergill Probation III. 179 Omnibuses, carts, and lorries were struggling in a ‘lock’ in the middle of the street. 1881Daily News 6 Sept. 2/2 The time-honoured ‘lorry,’ or open cart, indigenous to Liverpool. 1882Ogilvie, Larry, a coal truck on a railway;..a lorry. 1900Engineering Mag. XIX. 764/1 Greater interest..now seems to center in the lorry, or automobile wagon for heavy duty.
b. A large motor vehicle for carrying goods, etc., by road. Also attrib.
1911Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 927/2 (caption) Halley's van or lorry chassis. 1915Autocar Handbk. (ed. 6) i. 11 Commercial motor vehicles, such as heavy motor lorries..are not specifically dealt with. 1925Morris Owner's Manual p. xiv (Advt.), Morris cars vans & lorries. 1930Amer. Speech V. 274 American English has universally chosen motor truck and truck rather than auto-truck or the British lorry. 1955Times 23 May 4/4 He spoke from a lorry on Waun Y Pound, a mountain top between Tredegar and Ebbw Vale. 1972Guinness Bk. Records (ed. 19) 130/2 The world's largest lorry is the M-200 Lectra Haul built by Unit Rig and Equipment Co. of Fort Worth, Texas with a capacity of 200 tons.
2. Mining. A running bridge over a pit.
1883Gresley Gloss. Coal Mining, Lorry (Yorkshire), a running bridge over a sinking pit top upon which the bowk is placed after it is brought up for emptying. Ibid., Lurry,..a movable platform on wheels, the top of which is made on a level with the bank or surface. It is run over the mouth of a pit-shaft for a bowk to be lowered down upon when reaching the pit top.
3. Comb., as lorry driver, lorry driving, lorry load, lorry-man, lorry-wheel; lorry-borne adj.; lorry-bus, a lorry used as a vehicle for public transport; also lorribus; lorry-hop v., to hitch-hike by lorry; so lorry-hopping vbl. n.; lorry-jump v. = lorry-hop vb.; so lorry-jumping vbl. n.; lorry park, an open space or lot reserved for the parking of lorries.
1937B. H. L. Hart Europe in Arms xxiv. 323 The inability of these temporarily *lorry-borne infantry to attack effectively after they had dismounted. 1943R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 7 Our aircraft..have operated against..armoured formations and lorry-borne infantry.
1919Daily Mail 12 June 4/4 In the welter of London's crowded streets we grasped at the relieving ‘*lorribus’ (the converted Army lorry doing the duty as an emergency omnibus). 1963Economist 23 Nov. 758/2 Ghana's ubiquitous lorry-buses, or mammywagons.
1926C.M.U.A. Jrnl. Apr.–May 29 It sometimes happened that a *lorry driver, arriving at noon, was told to go away and return next morning, as railway trucks were being loaded. 1972Times 30 Nov. 5/6 Lorry drivers will meet dockers' representatives to-morrow.
1937D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon viii. 166 Odd jobs of *lorry-driving and taxi-work. 1975J. Wainwright Square Dance 246 Shurrup, lad... Stick to lorry-driving, and learn.
1933A. G. Macdonell England, their England xvii. 286 He walked a bit from Alton, and then *lorry-hopped, in army fashion, as fas as..Alresford. 1947Penguin New Writing XXI. 98 An ex-convict..who lorry-hops across England in order to escape the police.
1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 147 *Lorry hopping (or jumping), a familiar term at the Front for travelling by begging ‘lifts’ from passing transport vehicles. 1928Blunden Undertones of War 201 By luck or judgment in lorry-hopping..one reached Boulogne. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Nov. 899/3 She ‘hitch-hiked’, the American equivalent for ‘lorry-hopping’.
1947L. Hastings Dragons are Extra v. 101 He..*lorry-jumped his way back to his own battery. 1963Guardian 6 Apr. 4/5 The moral dangers of young girls ‘lorry jumping’ or frequenting roadside cafés.
1928C. T. Brunner Probl. Motor Transport vi. 101 The expense of railway transport,..could be reduced by packing the goods in containers..of a weight which would constitute a *lorry load. 1972Times 30 Nov. 23/4 Mr John Peyton..has actively stimulated opposition to the present EEC proposals for standardizing lorry loads.
1888Pall Mall G. 23 Jan. 10/2 A railway *lorryman.
1968Listener 14 Mar. 335/1 Eight caravans..had been parked as a final gesture of despair in the middle of a Walsall Corporation *lorry park. 1971Daily Tel. 13 Sept. 3/6 Recommendations..to replace traditional transport cafés with a network of guarded lorry parks. 1974Ibid. 9 Mar. 2/5 The removal of guard dogs, closed circuit television and the {pstlg}1 parking fee at a high security lorry park has led to a record number of lorries using it.
1880Daily News 6 Oct. 6/4 A girl was blown under a *lorry wheel.
▪ II. lorry, v.|ˈlɒrɪ|
[f. the n.]
trans. To transport or convey by means of a lorry or lorries. Hence ˈlorried ppl. a.
1920Blackw. Mag. Jan. 125/1 They were ‘lorried’ to the Lys front. 1949W. S. Churchill Second World War II. ii. xxiii. 416 Tanks..and artillery in front, and with lorried infantry in the centre. 1958G. Donaldson Shetland Life under Earl Patrick 61 Only since such calls [at individual ports] ceased have all goods for places on the Mainland been landed at Lerwick and then lorried to their destinations. 1975Daily Tel. 9 Sept. 12/6 There will be in 1 British Corps, three lorried infantry battalions.
▪ III. lorry, lorrykeet
vars. laury Obs., lorikeet. |