lorry-driver

See also: lorry driver

English

Noun

lorry-driver (plural lorry-drivers)

1. Alternative form of lorry driver.
   • 1872 March 28, “Extensive Theft of Refined Sugars in Greenock”, in The Glasgow Herald, number 10,060, page 3, column 5:

     The detectives, after much labour, succeeded in discovering that quantities of sugar were being sold to parties in Greenock and Port-Glasgow, and, following the clue thus obtained, they succeeded in discovering a lorry-driver who had from time to time carted away a number of barrels of sugar from a shed in the neighbourhood of the store in Dellingburn Street, by order of Scott and Briggs.

   • 1989 December 19, Sue Masterman, “‘Piles of bodies in the streets’”, in Evening Standard, page 1, column 2:

     A lorry-driver who arrived in Yugoslavia after travelling through the area said that he had seen tanks outside Timisoara and armoured cars in the centre.

   • 2012 December 15, Jane Jakeman, “The spinster, her killer and the copper’s theatre of crime”, in Independent Radar (The Independent), page 30, column 2:

     She was very careful with the little cash she had, and to save money hitched lifts with lorry-drivers to the nearest town.