lurry

American  

[lur-ee] / ˈlɜr i /

noun

• lurries
  plural

1. British, Dialect. lorry; truck, wagon, or cart.

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verb (used with object)

lurried, lurrying

1. British, Dialect. to pull, haul, or drag.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• lurries
  plural

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

lurry lurries

It looked as if he must meet them and he wrote a notice that coal would be delivered by the trailer lurry at a reduction of two-and-six a ton.

From The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Harold Bindloss

However, if Bell can send back his lurry full, the economy is plain.

From The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Harold Bindloss

A haziness that had been in the sky, strengthened into a lurry of little cloudlets between us and the stars.

From A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds

His traction engine is suited for the work and he is prepared to buy a trailer lurry, which we would find useful in the dale.

From The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" by Harold Bindloss

A Jacobean writer speaks of "the lurry of lawyers," and "a lurry and rabble of poor friars."

From The Journal to Stella by Jonathan Swift

The lodge-door was like a common garden-door; on one side of it were great closed gates for the ingress and egress of lurries and wagons.

From North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

As they drove through the larger and wider streets, from the station to the hotel, they had to stop constantly; great loaded lurries blocked up the not over-wide thoroughfares.

From North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

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