dray

• enPR: drā, IPA^(key): /dɹeɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

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.

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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dray (plural drays)

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

• “dray”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “dray”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Dyar, Rady, Yard, adry, yard

dray

1. Alternative spelling of drai