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 horse used in drawing a dray.
WordNet
n. horse adapted for drawing heavy loads [syn: draft horse, draught horse]
Usage examples of "dray horse".
It was even taller at the shoulder than a dray horse of Mafloo, its breath hot and sulfurous.
After setting the wagon brakes, he climbed down and threaded the restraint ropes through the iron rings on the back of the harness of each dun dray horse, then tied both the ropes and the leathers to the big iron ring on the posts.
The lanky figure riding what seemed to be an odd breed of dray horse cautiously walked his mount forward.
Surely he would soon tire of it, perhaps even begin agreeing that she was a dray horse, manly, a hag.
With the padding I could see under it, he was going to be sweating like a dray horse, but then so was I, so that would balance the runes.
He had felt awkward at first as he sat atop the old gray dray horse that had been judged sufficient for one of his skills.
Keeping her face Yamani-blank, she imagined Graystreak put to dray horse work in the northern mines.