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Lorry

A lorry is an expression for

  1. a truck
  2. an open railroad car with a tipping trough, often found in mines
  3. The word originally meant a sort of heavy horsedrawn wagon. This is an obsolete usage.

The word may have originated as the personal name "Laurie", which is short for "Lawrence".



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