name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
dray
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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drā
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/dɹeɪ/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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rhymes with -eɪ
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CMU ARPABET: D R EY1 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Any of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 3
A kind of sledge or sled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative spelling of drey (“squirrel's nest”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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verb
Meaning 5
To convey (goods) by dray.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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noun
Meaning 6
a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: camion
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: horse cart, horse-cart
History
Etymology
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.
Unknown.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bashkir: арба (arba) — horse-drawn cart
- Bashkir: ылау (ılaw) — horse-drawn cart
- Bulgarian: каруца (karuca) — horse-drawn cart
- Chinese Mandarin: 運貨馬車 /运货马车 (yùnhuò mǎchē) — horse-drawn cart
- Czech: valník — horse-drawn cart
- Finnish: rattaat — horse-drawn cart
- Galician: carreta — horse-drawn cart
- Irish: drae — horse-drawn cart
- Italian: carro — horse-drawn cart
- Italian: carretta — horse-drawn cart
- Karakalpak: law — horse-drawn cart
- Kazakh: лау (lau) — horse-drawn cart
- Māori: terei — horse-drawn cart
- Norwegian Bokmål: drog — horse-drawn cart
- Portuguese: carroça — horse-drawn cart
- Russian: теле́га (teléga) — horse-drawn cart
- Russian: воз (voz) — horse-drawn cart
- Russian: подво́да (podvóda) — horse-drawn cart
- Southern Altai: улаа (ulaa) — horse-drawn cart
- Spanish: carreta — horse-drawn cart
- Spanish: carretón — horse-drawn cart
- Swedish: drög — horse-drawn cart
- Tatar: олау (olaw) — horse-drawn cart
- Welsh: car — horse-drawn cart
- Welsh: cart — horse-drawn cart
- Western Yugur: olaɣ — horse-drawn cart