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dray
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A big dray horse might be suited to haul a coal wagon, a more delicate saddle horse to recreational riding. ▪ Eighteen months and he was looking out again for blossoms only this time he did the looking on a dray . ▪ Later that ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dray \Dray\, n. [AS. dr[ae]ge a dragnet, fr. dragan. ????. See Draw , and cf. 2d Drag , 1st Dredge .] A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens. --Addison. A kind of sledge or sled. --Halliwell. Dray cart , a dray. Dray horse , a heavy, strong ...
Usage examples of dray.
Travis and Condy edged their way among piles of wheat-bags, dodging drays and rumbling trucks, and finally brought up at the after gangplank, where a sailor halted them.
He waved a dismissive hand, as they dodged through the early traffic of carts and drays and handbarrows in the flickering oil-lit darkness of Rue du Levee.
Toted them in handbarrows and on dollies, in buckboards and two-wheeled drays.
She and her husband had ridden, in admittedly easy stages, from Sydney to the Illawarra, but, unaccustomed to such strenuous exercise, she was saddlesore and stiff, and the dray was comfortably cushioned, its occupants shielded by an awning from the glare of the sun.
When Lorenz and I boxed up the type and hand-moulds, it was to this place we had them shipped and drayed ahead.
Along there the trams andcarriages, and the cars and the carts and the drays, bore guildsmen of every kind to their daily labours in Tidesmeet Docks.
Along there the trams and carriages, and the cars and the carts and the drays, bore guildsmen of every kind to their daily labours in Tidesmeet Docks.
One contingent had an armoured, eight-wheeled cilla pulled by a team of ten drays.
Crossing the open exercise areas he came to the stables, filled with the ceaseless sounds and thick smells of horses of all sorts: brave coursers and glum-faced palfreys, massive destriers, well-formed jumpers and the enormous draft annuals that pulled the war drays of the entourage from Matloo.
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.
On a golden day in summer, when the sunrays were aslant, Brown arrived in Cambaroora with a little printing plant And his worldly goods and chattels -- rather damaged on the way -- And a weary-looking woman who was following the dray.
The docks were comparatively animated, with the passage of drays, the shouting and cursing of porters, the gay music of concertinas from aboard the barge.