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dray
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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English draye, dreye, from Old English dræġe (“dragnet”), from Proto-Germanic *dragǭ. Cognate with Middle Low German drāge (“stretcher; dray”), Middle High German trage (“a litter”). Related to Old English dragan (“to pull; draw”). More at draw.
Noun
dray (plural drays)
- Any of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
- Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a “jog” at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire
- September 28 1710, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner:
- Let him be brought into the field of election upon his dray-cart.
- A kind of sledge or sled.
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
Translations
horse-drawn cart
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Verb
dray (third-person singular simple present drays, present participle draying, simple past and past participle drayed)
- (transitive) To convey (goods) by dray.
Etymology 2
Unknown.
Noun
dray (plural drays)
- Alternative spelling of drey (“squirrel's nest”).
References
- “dray”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “dray”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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Verb
dray
- alternative spelling of drai
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