lorry
Plural: lorries
Noun
- A large vehicle for transporting goods by road; a truck.
- a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides
- a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides
- A large and heavy motor vehicle designed to carry goods or soldiers; a truck
- a truck with an open carriage, sometimes used for transporting construction workers.
- A barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.
- A small cart or wagon used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish.
- A large, low, horse-drawn, four-wheeled cart without sides; also, a similar wagon modified for use on railways.
Verb
- To transport by, or as if by, lorry.
Examples
- He hoped to deliver a high score by playing LORRY across the double word.
Origin / Etymology
Uncertain; perhaps from dialectal English lurry (“to lug or pull about, drag”), or from the forename Laurie. First attested in early to middle 19th century.
Scrabble Score: 8
lorry: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlorry: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lorry: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 8
lorry: valid Words With Friends Word