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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dray
noun
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▪ 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 morning the trunks arrived by dray, and she spent the rest of the day unpacking.
▪ She had found it in the dray horses and in Barney, who was a singularly unimpressive animal except for his listening skills.
▪ They came on foot, by river steamer and in horse-drawn omnibuses and drays.
▪ They still use the horse and dray, which he remembers going out on when he was a boy.
▪ Two former dray tractors with the appropriate black and gold livery will move the roadshow around the country.
▪ Would you mount the dray for a ride in the country, or hitch a saddle horse to a heavy wagon?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dray

Dray \Dray\, n. A squirrel's nest.
--Cowper.

Dray

Dray \Dray\, n. [AS. dr[ae]ge a dragnet, fr. dragan. ????. See Draw, and cf. 2d Drag, 1st Dredge.]

  1. A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.
    --Addison.

  2. A kind of sledge or sled.
    --Halliwell.

    Dray cart, a dray.

    Dray horse, a heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dray

mid-14c., Middle English noun derivative of Old English dragan "to draw," originally meaning a cart without wheels that has to be "dragged" (compare Old Norse draga "timber dragged behind a horse"); see drag (v.).

Wiktionary
dray

Etymology 1 n. 1 A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads. 2 A kind of sledge or sled. Etymology 2

n. variant spelling of '''drey''', The nest of a squirrel.

WordNet
dray

n. a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage [syn: camion]

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Wikipedia
Dray

Dray may refer to:

  • Dray (name)
  • Dray, a type of wagon or horse-drawn trolley
  • A dray horse, also known as a draft horse
  • Dray Prescot series, science fiction novels
  • Dray (or drey, the more common spelling), a squirrel's nest
Dray (name)

Dray is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:

  • Julien Dray (born 1955), French politician
  • Tevian Dray (born 1956), American mathematician
  • Walter Dray (1886–1973), American track and field athlete
  • William Herbert Dray (born 1921), Canadian philosopher of history
  • Dray Skky, American songwriter

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.