Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mining, a running bridge over a sinking-pit top, upon which the bowk is placed after it is brought up for emptying.
- noun A long wagon, consisting of a nearly flat platform (with a very low rim) set on four wheels, which are either entirely under the platform or do not rise above it.
- noun A trolley for carrying coal, ore, etc., upon an overhead railway. Also written
larry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large low horse-drawn wagon without sides
- noun a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides
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Examples
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'The Big Red Moving Lorry' is one I particularly remember, if by now only the title.
Dungeekin The Elder Dungeekin 2009
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'The Big Red Moving Lorry' is one I particularly remember, if by now only the title.
Archive 2009-03-01 Dungeekin 2009
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She lay still, almost breathless, her eyes fixed on the yellow oblong of the transom, recalling Lorry in those days, in stiff white skirts and a wide silk sash, very grave, a little woman even then.
Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Geraldine Bonner 1900
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Lokey's gift will help give rise to a 200,000-square-foot facility that will be known as the Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building.
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He sat up answering, heard his own voice suddenly fill the silence loud and startling, "Lorry," and then again lower, "Lorry."
Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California Geraldine Bonner 1900
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There to the left of me is my first cousin Lorry and we are standing next to the statue of the Virgin Mary.
Claudia Ricci: Why Writers Write the Crazy Books They Write Claudia Ricci 2011
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There to the left of me is my first cousin Lorry and we are standing next to the statue of the Virgin Mary.
Claudia Ricci: Why Writers Write the Crazy Books They Write Claudia Ricci 2011
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There to the left of me is my first cousin Lorry and we are standing next to the statue of the Virgin Mary.
Claudia Ricci: Why Writers Write the Crazy Books They Write Claudia Ricci 2011
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More TM analogies: People still get name changes rejected on deceptiveness grounds (Chief rejected as deceptive indicator of authority; names of other people adopted for misleading others into a belief in relationship or identity with a famous person — Peter Lorry) and scandalousness (Fuck Censorship).
Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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More TM analogies: People still get name changes rejected on deceptiveness grounds (Chief rejected as deceptive indicator of authority; names of other people adopted for misleading others into a belief in relationship or identity with a famous person — Peter Lorry) and scandalousness (Fuck Censorship).
IPSC: trademark and the consumer Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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