dray

«dray» in Mova's school dictionary: A low, strong cart without sides, pulled by horses, used… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (a dray, drays)

meaning for a pupil

1) A low, strong cart without sides, pulled by horses, used to carry heavy loads like barrels of beer. tree →

2) (Australia, old) Any cart or wagon for carrying goods. tree →

sense in the lessons

In history and classic stories, drays and dray horses carried barrels from breweries through city streets; today some breweries still keep dray horses for shows; phrases: «a dray horse», «brewer's dray».

examples

• A big dray horse pulled the barrels through the town. tree →
• In Victorian London, drays rattled over the cobbles. tree →
• The brewery shows its drays at the county fair. tree →
• The barrels were loaded onto the dray. tree →
• Shire horses are often used as dray horses. tree →
• In old Australia, drays carried wool to the ports. tree →

note

Countable: drays. Old-fashioned word, mostly in history. Dray horses are large, strong breeds like Shires and Clydesdales.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dray» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.