Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
dray , 1.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lady Hester -- '"I will tell you what difference it makes," Dela garde broke in, guiding his pair neatly through a narrow gap between a dray-cart and an ancient hackney coach.
Gatlinburg 2010
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The fourwheeler ran into a dray-cart, round a corner where they were repairing the street.
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In short, on one of those evenings, while crossing the Canongate towards Holyrood House, his foot slipped on a stone, and he fell: at that instant a four-horse dray-cart, escaped from its owner, drove furiously over him.
The Scottish Chiefs 1875
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'carreta' means a Spanish dray-cart, and that 'carita,' 'my dear,' was probably meant.
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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