lorryman

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lorryman

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From lorry + -man.

noun lorrymen · larryman

A man or (broadly) any person employed to operate a lorry (cart or wagon for transporting coke etc.). He next secured an entrance amongst the goods porters of the London and North-Western Railway; and now the work promised so to grow on his hands, that the Committee of the City Mission set him apart for this special line of labour, and gave him a commission to open similar services wherever a suitab

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@misc{lorryman_2026,
  title = {lorryman},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lorryman},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}