Definitions
A flat holder or carrier for serving or carrying things.
Word origin
From Middle English trey, from Old English trēġ, trīġ (“wooden board, tray”), from Proto-West Germanic *trauwi, from Proto-Germanic *trawją (“wooden vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *drewo-, *dóru (“tree; wood”). Cognate with Old Norse treyja (“carrier”), Old Swedish trø (“wooden grain measure”), Low German Treechel (“dough trough”), Ancient Greek δροίτη (droítē, “tub, vat”), Sanskrit द्रोण (droṇa, “trough”). Related to trough and tree.
Used in a sentence
“I carefully arranged the dishes on the tray and brought it upstairs.”
“Make sure that tray of eggs is properly loaded.”
“Before long they had consumed a whole tray of shrimp cocktails and sent for another.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer3 curated clues
01“Flat carrier for food”4 letters
02“Server's flat carrier”4 letters
03“Serving holder”4 letters
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