Other forms: lorries
A lorry is a large goods vehicle. A lorry driver, articulated lorry, load the lorry.
This is British; American English says truck, and the word is one of the clearest markers between them. Drivers' hours are limited by law and monitored by a tachograph, because tired driving in something that heavy kills. The origin of the word is unknown.
1nounlorryA large goods vehicle.
“A lorry had broken down on the motorway, blocking one lane.”
lorry is a vehicle.
Also accepted in games: truck
First recorded in the nineteenth century for a railway wagon; the further origin is unknown, perhaps from a dialect verb meaning to drag.
unknown; 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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