motor lorry

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noun British.

a motor truck, especially one with open sides.

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Origin of motor lorry

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby motor lorry

motor home, motoric, motoring, motorist, motorize, motor lorry, motorman, motor-minded, motor-mouth, motor neuron, motor neurone disease

How to use motor lorry in a sentence

I was wanted to take ten officers at once and to jump into a motor lorry, and go with a party of 30 others to the trenches.
Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie|George Brenton Laurie
Added to these difficulties, a motor-lorry had stuck on the way up and blocked our transport for the night.
The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade|Edward Lord Gleichen
After some days I was taken in a motor-lorry to the Prize Court.
Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion, 1916|Karl Spindler
That day the Battalion went by motor lorry to billets in Péronne, where four days were spent.
The Story of the "9th King's" in France|Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts

Now that is a sight you don't often see: a Diplomatique Corps being returned to store in a motor lorry.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, October 6, 1920|Various