What is "drays"

Usage examples of "drays".

Rich furniture and ragged furniture, carts, waggons, and drays, ropes, canvas, and straw, packers, porters, and draymen, white, yellow, and black, occupy the streets from east to west, from north to south, on this day.

Barrows and drays were being hauled across the cobbles, and mules labored under heavy loads of linen or grain.

And if any large cart entrance happens to be open one may espy deep yards crowded with drays and full of acrid vapor.

Activity had diminished somewhat, but drays still carried goods here and there among the warehouses.