dray

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Pronunciation[edit]

  • enPR: drā, IPA(key): /dɹeɪ/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪ

Etymology 1[edit]

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[edit]

dray (plural drays)

  1. 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.
  2. A kind of sledge or sled.
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Etymology 2[edit]

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Noun[edit]

dray (plural drays)

  1. Alternative spelling of drey (“squirrel's nest”)

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dray

  1. Alternative spelling of drai
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