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单词 lorry
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lorryn.

Brit. /ˈlɒri/, /ˈlʌri/, U.S. /ˈlɔri/
Forms: Also 1800s lorrie, lurrie, larry, lurry.
Etymology: Of obscure etymology; compare dialect 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.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > low or without sides
roll-wainc1503
dray1581
troll1663
dray-cart1710
rulley1759
truck1774
trolley1823
gambo1836
lorry1838
platform car1843
platform wagon1850
trolley-cart1865
float1866
wherry?1881
camion1885
rolley1886
floater1888
sloven1889
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 115/1 There was a luggage lorry..between the engine and carriages for passengers.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 145/1 A luggage train was perceived..with three lurries attached to it.
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 256 Liverpool town float, lorrie and coal cart.
1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. vii. 87 Great loaded lurries blocked up the not over-wide thoroughfares.
1863 P. 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.
1879 J. Fothergill Probation III. 179 Omnibuses, carts, and lorries were struggling in a ‘lock’ in the middle of the street.
1881 Daily News 6 Sept. 2/2 The time-honoured ‘lorry,’ or open cart, indigenous to Liverpool.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Larry, a coal truck on a railway;..a lorry.
1900 Engin. Mag. 19 764/1 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 attributive.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [noun] > truck or lorry
rig1831
lorry1911
truck1916
camion1922
1911 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 927/2 (caption) Halley's van or lorry chassis.
1915 Autocar Handbk. (ed. 6) i. 11 Commercial motor vehicles, such as heavy motor lorries..are not specifically dealt with.
1925 Morris Owner's Man. p. xiv (advt.) Morris cars vans & lorries.
1930 Amer. Speech 5 274 American English has universally chosen motor truck and truck rather than auto-truck or the British lorry.
1955 Times 23 May 4/4 He spoke from a lorry on Waun Y Pound, a mountain top between Tredegar and Ebbw Vale.
1972 Guinness 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.
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms 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.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining 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.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a.
lorry driver n.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of motor vehicle > lorry driver
teamster1805
truck-driver1907
lorry driver1926
skinner1929
truckie1958
trucker1961
1926 C.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.
1972 Times 30 Nov. 5/6 Lorry drivers will meet dockers' representatives to-morrow.
lorry driving n.
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1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon viii. 166 Odd jobs of lorry-driving and taxi-work.
1975 J. Wainwright Square Dance 246 Shurrup, lad... Stick to lorry-driving, and learn.
lorry load n.
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1928 C. 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.
1972 Times 30 Nov. 23/4 Mr John Peyton..has actively stimulated opposition to the present EEC proposals for standardizing lorry loads.
lorry-man n.
ΚΠ
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Jan. A railway lorryman.
lorry-wheel n.
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1880 Daily News 6 Oct. 6/4 A girl was blown under a lorry wheel.
b.
lorry-borne adj.
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1937 B. H. L. Hart Europe in Arms xxiv. 323 The inability of these temporarily lorry-borne infantry to attack effectively after they had dismounted.
1943 R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 7 Our aircraft..have operated against..armoured formations and lorry-borne infantry.
C2.
lorry-bus n. (also lorribus) a lorry used as a vehicle for public transport.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > motor-driven > other types
wagonette omnibus1903
jitney bus1914
lorry-bus1919
mammy wagon1957
postbus1957
mammy lorry1959
jeepney1961
danfo1973
transbus1973
molue1976
bendy bus1978
daladala1983
1919 Daily 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).
1963 Economist 23 Nov. 758/2 Ghana's ubiquitous lorry-buses, or mammywagons.
lorry-hop v. to hitch-hike by lorry.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > hitch-hike > on lorries
lorry-hop1933
lorry-jump1947
1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England xvii. 286 He walked a bit from Alton, and then lorry-hopped, in army fashion, as fas as..Alresford.
1947 Penguin New Writing XXI. 98 An ex-convict..who lorry-hops across England in order to escape the police.
lorry-hopping n.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > hitch-hiking > on lorries
lorry-hopping1925
lorry-jumping1925
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 147 Lorry hopping (or jumping), a familiar term at the Front for travelling by begging ‘lifts’ from passing transport vehicles.
1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War 201 By luck or judgment in lorry-hopping..one reached Boulogne.
1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Nov. 899/3 She ‘hitch-hiked’, the American equivalent for ‘lorry-hopping’.
lorry-jump v. = lorry-hop vb.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > hitch-hike > on lorries
lorry-hop1933
lorry-jump1947
1947 L. Hastings Dragons are Extra v. 101 He..lorry-jumped his way back to his own battery.
1963 Guardian 6 Apr. 4/5 The moral dangers of young girls ‘lorry jumping’ or frequenting roadside cafés.
lorry-jumping n.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > hitch-hiking > on lorries
lorry-hopping1925
lorry-jumping1925
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 147 Lorry hopping (or jumping), a familiar term at the Front for travelling by begging ‘lifts’ from passing transport vehicles.
lorry park n. an open space or lot reserved for the parking of lorries.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > a parking place > area where caravans may be parked > for lorries
hardstanding1940
lorry park1968
1968 Listener 14 Mar. 335/1 Eight caravans..had been parked as a final gesture of despair in the middle of a Walsall Corporation lorry park.
1971 Daily Tel. 13 Sept. 3/6 Recommendations..to replace traditional transport cafés with a network of guarded lorry parks.
1974 Daily Tel. 9 Mar. 2/5 The removal of guard dogs, closed circuit television and the £1 parking fee at a high security lorry park has led to a record number of lorries using it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

lorryv.

Brit. /ˈlɒri/, U.S. /ˈlɔri/
Etymology: < lorry n.
transitive. To transport or convey by means of a lorry or lorries.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport of goods in a vehicle > transport goods in vehicle [verb (transitive)] > by lorry
lorry1920
1920 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 125/1 They were ‘lorried’ to the Lys front.
1958 G. 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.

Derivatives

ˈlorried adj.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor lorry, truck, or van > [adjective] > provided with lorries
lorried1949
1949 W. S. Churchill Second World War II. ii. xxiii. 416 Tanks..and artillery in front, and with lorried infantry in the centre.
1975 Daily Tel. 9 Sept. 12/6 There will be in 1 British Corps, three lorried infantry battalions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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