Lorry

Posted by ESC on September 27, 2000

Does anyone know why a lorry is called a lorry? (Lorry being what we in the U.S. call a truck.) I saw this question on another forum. I checked all my references and came up with zero. Even OED said the origin of the word was "obscure."

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