noun
lorry
LOR-ee/ˈlɔːri/
A large motor vehicle for carrying goods, called a truck in American English.
The large lorry carries wooden crates securely strapped to its flatbed.
Etymology
Lorry first named a flat-bed railway wagon before being applied to a road-going goods vehicle. It probably comes from lurry, 'to pull or tug,' whose own origin is uncertain.
In context
an x-ray in this day and age is a lorry comes by it pulls up beside the container
More examples
- Workers unload boxes from the lorry at the store.
- Two lorries wait outside the factory for their next loads.
- The delivery lorry is too tall for the low bridge.
Forms
lorry · lorries