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noun, plural -ries.

Chiefly British. a motor truck, especially a large one.

any of various conveyances running on rails, as for transporting material in a mine or factory.

a long, low, horse-drawn wagon without sides.

Origin:
1830–40; akin to dial. lurry to pull, drag, lug

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No one could tell for sure if it was dead already when it hit the first lorry.

The lorry would have headed to a port and unloaded its cargo, bolt by bolt, into a dockside warehouse.

It all depends on what fell off the back of a lorry that day.

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No one could tell for sure if it was dead already when it hit the first lorry.

The lorry would have headed to a port and unloaded its cargo, bolt by bolt, into a dockside warehouse.

It all depends on what fell off the back of a lorry that day.

Just having a laugh with an articulated lorry and a lamp post.

It was said to be hidden in a lorry piled with farm produce, a common means of concealment.

It is the box itself that matters to the crane operators, shipping lines, railways and lorry drivers that handle them.

Many make the journey on foot, as lorry drivers are scared to transport them.

The smartphone scans the label on delivery and talks to the server again when the sacks are weighed and loaded onto a lorry.

Some car and lorry drivers try to exploit this aerodynamic effect by tailgating big trucks to reduce their own fuel consumption.

On inquiry, it emerged the money came from bribes routinely paid by bus and lorry drivers.

Power is cut for four hours a day and deliveries by lorry that should take three days take nine.

As night falls, a single federal police lorry creeps along the southern edge of the former green zone.

Its shoots are gathered daily, packed in bags or wrapped in leaves and carried by lorry to noontime markets.

Trying to do this behind a big lorry on a motorway is extremely dangerous.

Now it was deployed to getting a law degree, studying at night and driving a lorry by day.

It continues to flower after being knocked over by a lorry or burned by humans trying to smoke out bees.

It could be transported on a ship, train or big lorry.

Hyundai has a large factory that manufactures transport containers and lorry trailers.

Lorry drivers often prefer to use the old roads that run parallel to the expressways in order to save money.

His defenders describe him as nothing more dangerous than a flying lorry driver.

British lorry drivers had to drive home from the continent empty, for instance, because they had no right to seek loads abroad.

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lorry (ˈlɒrɪ)

—n , pl -ries
1.	See also articulated vehicle US and Canadian name: truck a large motor vehicle designed to carry heavy loads, esp one with a flat platform
2.	informal (Brit) off the back of a lorry a phrase used humorously to imply that something has been dishonestly acquired: it fell off the back of a lorry
3.	any of various vehicles with a flat load-carrying surface, esp one designed to run on rails

[C19: perhaps related to northern English dialect lurry to pull, tug]

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lorry

"A truck, a long, flat wagon," 1838, British railroad word, probably from verb lurry "to pull, tug," of uncertain origin. Meaning "large motor vehicle for carrying goods" is first attested 1911.

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