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Definition of dray noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

dray

noun
 
/dreɪ/
 
/dreɪ/
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  1. a low flat vehicle pulled by horses and used in the past for carrying heavy loads, especially barrels of beer
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryDray is used before these nouns:
    • horse
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    Word Originlate Middle English (denoting ‘a sledge’): perhaps from Old English dræge ‘dragnet’, related to dragan ‘to pull’, of Germanic origin.
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