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lorry Definition

lorry (lôrē)

noun pl. -·ries

  1. a low, flat wagon without sides
  2. any of various trucks fitted to run on rails
  3. 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.

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