lorry
lorry
Definition
lorry (lôr′ē)
noun pl. -·ries
- a low, flat wagon without sides
- any of various trucks fitted to run on rails
- Brit. a motor truck
Etymology: prob. < dial. lurry, lorry, to tug, pull
lorry
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- articulate: Never try to squeeze past a bus or articulated lorry, they need a wider space to turn.
- refrigerate: Only a person who was absolutely desperate would agree to be shut in a refrigerated lorry with no means of escape.
- unload: A forklift truck unloading a lorry was forced to reverse rapidly.
- overtake: Got my first speeding ticket on this - doing 45mph overtaking a dustbin lorry on a dual carriageway in Cleveleys.
- collide: The lorry collided with their vehicle and he and his colleague found themselves being dragged along the A13 in a completely up-turned car.
- overturn: It was not an overturned lorry, but a lorry carrying nitrogen peroxide that caught fire.
Adjective modifier
- oncoming: Why not shunt him into that pillar, or an oncoming lorry?
- heavy: The movement of a large number of heavy lorries across the common will further disturb the flocks.
Modifies a noun
- driver: Without lorry drivers you wouldn't have a job!
- loader: Employers must also make certain operators of lorry loader cranes are properly trained in all aspects of the operation of a lorry loader.
- load: It had taken two lorry loads to fill the barn.
- ban: The process also looks at lorry ban areas, restricted access and traffic management measures around road repairs and streetworks.
- crane: Employers must also make certain operators of lorry loader cranes are properly trained in all aspects of the operation of a lorry loader.
- trailer: Night porter Jason Bailey crashed his Peugot 205 into a parked lorry trailer on the night of Saturday January 14.
Noun used with modifier
- ton: For the most common large 38 ton lorry that's around £ 1300.
- dustbin: Got my first speeding ticket on this - doing 45mph overtaking a dustbin lorry on a dual carriageway in Cleveleys.
- tanker: The pond was drained down and the silt sucked out using sludge pump tanker lorries.
- ton: We carry our own custom built sound system in a 7.5 ton lorry, which consist of nearly 20,000 watts of power.
- bin: On Thursday morning, as I was going to work, the bin lorry was at the top of our drive.
- steam: Needs to be no smaller than 4 inch scale, not a freelance needs to be a scale model of an actual steam lorry.
