lorry-driver

plural lorry-drivers

1. alternativeAlternative form of lorry driver.

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

   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

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   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.

   1872 March 28, “Extensive Theft of Refined Sugars in Greenock”, in The Glasgow Herald, number 10,060, page 3, column 5

   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.

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