Green’s Dictionary of Slang

lurries n.

[lurry n.]
(UK Und. )

1. (also larries) clothes.

[Ire]Head Eng. Rogue I 50: Lurries, All manner of Cloaths.
[UK]A Newgate ex-prisoner A Warning for House-Keepers 5: But if the cully naps us / and the Lurres from us take / O then they rub us to the Whitt / And it is hardly worth a Make.
[UK]J. Shirley Triumph of Wit.
[UK]Dr Saman Golden Cabinet of Secrets.
[UK]Scoundrel’s Dict. n.p.: Larries Cloaths.

2. a quantity of valuables, e.g. watches and rings.

[UK]A Newgate ex-prisoner A Warning for House-Keepers 4: They rifle the house for yellow-boyes and pieces of white, which is Gold and Silver, and if they find none, they take the best buleroyes or Lurryes they can find and pike off with them.
[UK]W. Nevison in Newgate Calendar I (1926) 291: ‘Now,’ saith he, ‘that thou art entered into our fraternity, thou must not scruple to act any villainies which thou shalt be able to perform, whether it be to nip a bung, bite the Peter Cloy, the lurries crash.’.
[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Lurries c. Money, Watches, Rings, or other Moveables.
[UK]New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]C. Johnson Hist. of Highwaymen &c. 105: [as cit. 1684].
[UK]Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[US]Matsell Vocabulum.
[UK]E. de la Bédollière Londres et les Anglais 316/1: lurries, argent, montres, bijoux et autres effets mobiliers.
[Aus]C. Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 47: Lurries, watches, rings, etc.