noun
dray
DRAY/dreɪ/
A low cart or wagon used to carry heavy loads.
The low wooden dray carries secured barrels and sacks on its sturdy platform.
Etymology
Dray comes from a noun derived from dragan, “to drag”—possibly dræge—and originally named a wheel-less cart that had to be dragged. The name later covered the low, sturdy wheeled cart used for heavy loads.
In context
this cart has a special name it's called a dray a Brewers dray all the beer barrels are loaded onto the dray
More examples
- Workers stack heavy sacks of grain on the dray.
- Two drays carry crates from the docks to the warehouse.
- The dray's low platform makes loading heavy goods easier.
Forms
dray · drays