v. Obs. exc. dial.
1. trans. To carry or drag along (a heavy body, a person, child); to ‘lug.’ Also, to drive by worrying. Now dial. (see E. D. D.).
1664. Cotton, Scarron., 33. Seven lordly tups he wounded Mortal … These to his hungry mates he lurries. (Pray what’s his due that Mutton worries?)
1879. Cumbld. Gloss., Suppl. s.v., Tak t’ dog and lurry them sheep away.
2. absol. or intr. To push about, struggle.
1804. Anderson’s Cumberld. Ball., 91. They fit, lugg’d, and lurry’d, aw owre blood and batter. Ibid. (1807), 142. The youngermak lurried ahint them.
