▪ I. larry, n.1 dial.
(ˈlærɪ)
1. Confusion, excitement.
| 1876 T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 358 ‘My brain is all in a spin, wi' being rafted up in such a larry!’ 1886 ― Mayor Casterbr. xxxvi, ‘The worst larry for me was that pleasant business at Horewood’. |
2. (See quot.)
| 1883 Nature XXVII. 452 The ‘Larry’ is a dense mass of rolling white land fog, and is confined to the bottom of the Teign valley. |
▪ II. larry, n.2 dial.
(ˈlærɪ)
a. (See quot. 185.). b. Liquid mortar, grout. Hence ˈlarry v. dial. (see quot. 1890).
| 185. Dict. Archit. (Arch. Publ. Soc.), Larry, a kind of long handled iron hoe with holes in it, used by bricklayers in making mortar; and to rake backwards and forwards the mortar laid on walls when mixing it with water to form grout. 1890 Gloucester Gloss., Larry, liquid mortar, growt. Hence ‘to larry it in’ means to flush up well with growt. |
▪ III. larry
variant of lorry n.