Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA large and heavy motor vehicle designed to carry goods or soldiers; a truck · A truck with an open carriage, sometimes used for transporting construction workers. · A barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations. · A small cart or wagon used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish.
Uncertain; perhaps from dialectal English lurry (“to lug or pull about, drag”) (compare dialectal lurry-cart), or from the forename Laurie. First attested in early to middle 19th century.
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- Cognate mentionlurryen · to lug or pull about, drag
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