Pronunciations
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/dɹeɪ/
Noun
Any of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
Usage- Historical
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Let him be brought into the field of election upon his dray-cart.
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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
‘I’ve seen him take things and lift them into a dray - things that - that - that - well, that you and me together couldn’t lift an inch!’
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The shooting motor cars, more like spiders in the moon than terrestrial objects, the thundering drays, the jingling hansoms, and little black broughams, made her think of the world she lived in.
A kind of sledge or sled.
Verb
To convey (goods) by dray.
Usage- Transitive
Noun
A group of squirrels.
Usage- collective
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He told how the herons always came at St. Valentine's to Felborough Wood and Chilham, and how the terns came in screaming gaggles when September was ending, and where the squirrels' drays were mostly found, and where he had seen a cete of badgers.
You can imagine that families and extended families who nurtured the offspring of their family, i.e. their tribe, barrel, pod (whales), or dray (squirrels) do better, i.e. have more healthier offspring who go on to produce more offspring——children and grandchildren—than those who don't nurture so well.
Among the squirrels that do not form a group, one squirrel with brave leadership took command of the squirrels and formed a dray.
Noun
a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage
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