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dray

Best crossword clue

"Heavy cart"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /dɹeɪ/Part of speech nounSorted adryStarts with DEnds with Y1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • Let him be brought into the field of election upon his dray-cart.
  • 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.

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