dray

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a low, strong cart or wagon, traditionally horse-drawn and used for carrying heavy loads

   The workers loaded the wooden boxes onto a dray bound for the warehouse.

2. 2
   verb

   to transport goods by dray or another low cart

   The brewery continued to dray its barrels through the city streets.

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Simplified etymology

Dray, recorded from the late Middle Ages as the name of a type of cart, belongs to the same Germanic word family as drag, draw, and draught.

From Middle English draye, from Old English draege ("dragnet, something drawn"), a Germanic formation related to draw and drag. The name reflects the vehicle's original character as a low platform or sled drawn along under a heavy load.

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