lorry UK /ˈlɒɹi/US /ˈlɔɹi/noun 5verb 1forms 3 noun5 •(UK, Ireland) A large and heavy motor vehicle designed to carry goods or soldiers; a truckThere was also the influx of a third of a million road lorries, sold at giveaway prices after their war roles ceased and used by competing one-man businesses to skim off sundry agricultural freight. — 2023 •(Singapore, Malaysia) A truck with an open carriage, sometimes used for transporting construction workers. •(old-fashioned) A barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations. •(old-fashioned) A small cart or wagon used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish. •(no longer used) A large, low, horse-drawn, four-wheeled cart without sides; also, a similar wagon modified for use on railways.For the services of horses and conveyances as may be required at either camp, at a charge per diem to be stated in tender, specifying single horse carts and four horse lorries. — 1887 verb1 •To transport by, or as if by, lorry.He lorried away with a whole pile of things, and cheated the bailiffs. — 1869 formslorried · lorrying · lorries
