lorry

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large vehicle for carrying heavy goods by road; a truck.

   A lorry full of vegetables pulled into the market.

2. 2
   verb

   To carry goods by lorry.

   They lorried the building materials to the site.

Uncertain; perhaps from dialectal English lurry (“to lug or pull about, drag”) (compare dialectal lurry-cart), or from the forename Laurie. First attested in early to middle 19th century.

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