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† harry-carry Obs.
(See quots., and cf. hurry-curry).
1493–4Ordinance in Yarmouth Bk. Entries in Norf. Archæol. (1855) IV. 262 Now of late divers of the same inhabitants have devised carts, called Harry Carries, and the owners of the same being called Harry Carmen, set..boys and girls to go with the said carts..Every harry carry man, keeping a harry carry to get money by the same, shall keep to go with the same one hable man. 1870Thornbury Tour Eng. II. xix. 37 These narrow rows [at Yarmouth] created a necessity for a special low, long narrow vehicle, first introduced in Henry the Seventh's time, and hence popularly known as ‘Harry-carries’. |