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dray

[ US /ˈdɹeɪ/ ]
[ UK /dɹˈe‍ɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage

How To Use dray In A Sentence

  • Lola saw bad boy Batster under dray bid tree fluttin 'wif dray bid dirl. Seventeen
  • Yet despite all this there was an air of conservation, the odd glimpse of the Old World in a narrow dingy lane where a dray horse shifted his weight from one hock to the other, blinking lazy lashes above the nosebag containing his lunch.
  • In addition, while the other contractors set a schedule of delivering the food in a month or three weeks, Goldner had promised immediate delivery (with the crating and drayage thrown in for no charge). The Terror
  • They left Adelaide on 12 November 1879 with four wagons, four drays, two express wagons, 40 men with portable troughs and a year's supply of fodder.
  • And yes here in England 'dray' is used quite commonly as the description of a squirrels' nest. Languagehat.com: DRAY/DREY.
  • T 'ould gray drayed off directly, and he's gane tull t' loike bricks -- but t 'bay's no but sillyish -- he keeps a breaking oot again for iver -- and sae Ay'se give him a hot maash enow! Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago
  • Would you mount the dray for a ride in the country, or hitch a saddle horse to a heavy wagon?
  • The real novelty was the stables tour to see the shire horses that pull the drays.
  • No burly drayman or big butts of beer, were wanted for apologies. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
  • The dray will be the one that came with the first horses brought in by Major John Bartholomew and it is currently being given a fresh coat of paint in the company's paint shop in Northgate Street.
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