Word Finder - lorries

definition

A motor vehicle for transporting goods, and in some cases people; a truck.

synonyms

• hauler
• rig
• tractor trailer
• truck

definition

A barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.

definition

A small cart or wagon used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish.

definition

A large, low, horse-drawn, four-wheeled wagon without sides; also, a similar wagon modified for use on railways.

At 9.46 one of the stolen lorries collided with a car on Beech Avenue, Alfreton.

The lorries followed the old trackbed of the railroad and never left Company property, even using the level crossings in Erith.

Bulk quantities of feed were loaded into bulk tanker lorries.

The two aircraft were now parked outside the HAS awaiting the arrival of the lorries the following morning.

Forklift trucks, compact dumpers, tipper lorries and tractors are all especially prone to overturning.

Cue a six-hour - rather hair-raising drive - along a road packed with rumbling lorries, busses, motorcycles and pedestrians.

The lorries were carefully checked before leaving the wharf, so that we could be sure the correct number of sacks were on board.

Derbyed around the American " sport " of racing huge, souped-up lorries in destruction derbies.

Typical contaminants are exhaust fumes from lorries parked outside the air compressor intake, flux fumes, halogenated solvents and oil from unsuitable compressors.

There we boarded a convoy of Army lorries and continued our journey westwards.

A battalion was hurried up in motor lorries, and marched up to Pasubio by the Passo di Xamo.

It is true that parked cars do cause problems for the refuse lorries and collectors.

Here we pass across the back of a scrap yard for heavy lorries.

The lorries were huge and often towed two or three trailers including the beautiful old showmen 's wagons, where the families lived.

It used lorries operated by the firemaster in his slater 's business.

In a typical large slaughterhouse animals were unloaded from lorries into the ' lairage ' or holding area.

We then need to get all the equipment cleared by customs and unloaded from the ship and into various vans and lorries.

The idea of hundreds of lorries and trains traveling the length of Scotland provoked strong opposition.

My sister remembers that it was the Royal Engineers, and that their lorries all had polar bears on then.

Fifty miles away, beside a 600-strong camp of Zanu militia, lorries were unloading sacks of maize.