单词 | lorry |
释义 | lorryn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 1880 Daily News 6 Oct. 6/4 A girl was blown under a lorry wheel. b. lorry-borne adj. ΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. transitive. To transport or convey by means of a lorry or lorries. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1838v.1920 |
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