Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A low, heavy cart without sides, used for haulage.
- v. To haul by means of a low, heavy sideless cart.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A low, strong cart with stout wheels, used for carrying heavy loads. Also called dray-cart.
- n. A sledge; a sled; a rude sort of vehicle without wheels.
- To carry or convey on a dray.
- n. A squirrel's nest. Also written drey.
- n. An obsolete variant of deray.
- n. In forestry, a single sled used in dragging logs. One end of the log rests upon the sled.
Wiktionary
- n. A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
- n. A kind of sledge or sled.
- n. variant spelling of drey, The nest of a squirrel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A squirrel's nest.
- n. A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens.
- n. A kind of sledge or sled.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage
Etymologies
- Unknown (Wiktionary)
- Middle English draie, sledge, cart, from Old English dragan, to draw. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“However, the word dray must be archaic now for all practical purposes.”
“Modeled after the big kids 'tractor pull, children ages 4-14 will pedal tractors pulling a dray, which is a weight.”
“I just discovered that a squirrel's nest is called a dray (4,160 Google hits) or drey (826).”
“Clarence called a dray, and had all Flora's things conveyed to the house he was fitting up as his residence.”
“OK, realistically I don't move in any circles in which squirrels are discussed with any frequency, and I have no real evidence as to whether those who do would find "dray" current or archaic.”
“And yes here in England 'dray' is used quite commonly as the description of a squirrels' nest.”
“They were piled high with supplies and THE DAY OF TOR DISSONANCE yoked to two matched horned lizards apiece, the kind of dray animals who could handle smooth roads or rough trails with ease.”
“They were piled high with supplies and yoked to two matched horned lizards apiece, the kind of dray animals who could handle smooth roads or rough trails with ease.”
“Some, however, stayed to bring a kind of dray with them, and then, when these also had started, he could see Harry Scott moving slowly off in the waggon towards the town.”
“A dray is a low cart, not a creature, you ignorant monster.”
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Notre Dame de Paris
From Notre Dame de Paris by good ole Victor Hugo. (Also called The Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
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The Innocents Abroad
Words rounded up while reading The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain.
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
Words and phrases from Scott Lynch's book, The Lies of Locke Lamora
constable, windfall, sternum, commensurate, disinter, grotty, thresher shark, savvy, miser, reticent, magnanimous, trowel and 301 more...
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Luck in the Shadows
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Luck in the Shadows.
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Bright's Passage
tendril, perfunctorily, slurry, emplacement, foray, dray, reverie, rill, chokecherry, ninebark, ess, meep and 30 more...
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