motor lorry

noun British.

a motor truck, especially one with open sides.

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Which of the options below is the best punctuation for the sentence? It__s your turn to pick the movie __ but your sister gets to pick the board game we _ re going to play.

Its your turn to pick the movie but your sister gets to pick the board game we’re going to play.

It’s your turn to pick the movie but your sister gets to pick the board game were going to play.

It’s your turn to pick the movie, but your sister gets to pick the board game we’re going to play.

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Origin of motor lorry

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby motor lorry

motor fiber, motor generator, motor home, motor image, motor lodge, motor lorry, motor nerve, motor neuron, motor neuron disease, motor neurone disease, motor nuclei

Example sentences from the Web for motor lorry

In that mysterious quarter known as the back of the Front the motor-lorry is omnipresent, especially (p. 194) at a time like this.
War Letters of a Public-School Boy|Paul Jones.
Moffat and Hogg, and we were lucky enough to get good lifts, first in a Canadian Staff car and then on a motor-lorry.
Q.6.a and Other places|Francis Buckley
On arriving at the scene, there was the motor-lorry almost buried to the top of the wheels.
500 of the Best Cockney War Stories|Various
After that, the talented Miss Cowley drove successively a trade delivery van, a motor-lorry and a general!
The Secret Adversary|Agatha Christie

So we decided to go and get breakfast at our billets and then to go to Amiens by motor-lorry, and catch the train there.
Q.6.a and Other places|Francis Buckley