Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗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. · A kind of sledge or sled.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo convey (goods) by dray.
From Middle English draye, dreye, from Old English dræġe (“dragnet”), from Proto-Germanic *dragǭ. Cognate with Middle Low German drāge (“stretcher; dray”), Middle High German trage (“a litter”). Related to Old English dragan (“to pull; draw”). More at draw.
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