dray – English noun declension

English noun forms of dray

Noun: dray
Singulardray
Pluraldrays

Sample Sentences

  • Let him be brought into the field of election upon his dray-cart. [1710 September 28, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner:]
  • Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a “jog” at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire [1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC:]
  • ‘I’ve seen him take things and lift them into a dray - things that - that - that - well, that you and me together couldn’t lift an inch!’ [1911, ‘Steel Rudd’, The Book of Dan, Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, published 1970, page 84:]
  • 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. [1915, Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out, London: Duckworth & Co., […], →OCLC:]

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'draye', Old English Nouns 'dræġe', Old English Nouns 'dragan'.

Verbs referencing "dray"

French Nouns drague.