Camion
a strongly built cart or wagon for transporting heavy loads; dray.
a truck, as for military supplies.
Historical Examples
My War Experiences in Two Continents Sarah Macnaughtan
“I was there” C. LeRoy Baldridge
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos
With the Doughboy in France Edward Hungerford
Lest We Forget John Gilbert Thompson
World’s War Events, Volume III Various
“And they thought we wouldn’t fight” Floyd Gibbons
World’s War Events, Volume III Various
One Man’s Initiation–1917 John Dos Passos
noun
a lorry, or, esp formerly, a large dray
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