Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To hurry carelessly.
- To lug; pull.
- To daub; dirty.
- noun A confused throng; a crowd; a heap.
- noun A confusion; confused inarticulate sound or utterance; disturbance; tumult.
- noun In coal-mining, a tram or car fitted with a device for taking up the slack of the rope used in hauling the cars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
confused heap ; athrong orjumble , as of people or sounds. - verb intransitive To
hurry carelessly. - verb transitive To
lug orpull about. - verb transitive To
daub ;dirty .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And after a very great deal of talk -- almost as much as Mr. Miles's carrying had needed -- the altar stone was lifted, Quentin, curtains, awning and all, and carried along a gangway to the shore, and there it was put on a sort of cart, more like what people in Manchester call a lurry than anything else I can think of.
The Magic World Gerald Spencer Pryse 1891
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I lurry, still clutching the telescope and trainers, jumped the last lew stairs and followed Dumbledore, who had settled himself in i he armchair nearest the fire and was taking in the surroundings wilh an expression of benign interest.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Rowling, J. K. 2005
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I long to be in Ireland; but the Ministry beg me to stay: however, when this Parliament lurry is over, I will endeavour to steal away; by which time I hope the First-Fruit business will be done.
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A Jacobean writer speaks of “the lurry of lawyers,” and “a lurry and rabble of poor friars.”
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I long to be in Ireland; but the Ministry beg me to stay: however, when this Parliament lurry [9] is over, I will endeavour to steal away; by which time I hope the First-Fruit business will be done.
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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A Jacobean writer speaks of "the lurry of lawyers," and
The Journal to Stella Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901
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A haziness that had been in the sky, strengthened into a lurry of little cloudlets between us and the stars.
A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900
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The mantelpiece and the corner cupboard, and the shelves behind the door, and the top of the chest of drawers and the bureau were all covered up with a perfect litter and lurry of old china.
In Homespun 1891
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Ancoats pavements; the drunken lurryman tottering out from the public-house to his lurry under the biting sleet of February; the ragged barefoot boys and girls swarming and festering in the slums; the young men struggling all about him for subsistence and success -- these for the first time became realities to him, entered into that pondering of 'whence and whither' to which he had been always destined, and whereon he was now consciously started.
The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885
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One on 'em borrowed a wheelbarrow, as they could'nt get a luggage lurry, an 'they had to wheel it up an' daan th 'haase floor i' ther turns, callin aght "By leave!"
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
qms commented on the word lurry
Cornelius tended to hurry.
His gait on most days was a scurry,
His costume, unkempt,
A failing attempt
To shape something more than a lurry.
July 26, 2017