However, the word dray must be archaic now for all practical purposes. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: DRAY/DREY.] Reference
I just discovered that a squirrel's nest is called a dray (4,160 Google hits) or drey (826). From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: DRAY/DREY.] Reference
Clarence called a dray, and had all Flora's things conveyed to the house he was fitting up as his residence. From Wordnik.com. [Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants] Reference
Modeled after the big kids 'tractor pull, children ages 4-14 will pedal tractors pulling a dray, which is a weight. From Wordnik.com. [There Are So Many Things to Do With A Potato....] Reference
And yes here in England 'dray' is used quite commonly as the description of a squirrels' nest. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: DRAY/DREY.] Reference
And the devil-dray seek: not there was his service. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
You see, a dray passed over my arm -- that was all. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Child 1894] Reference
If the log is very heavy, one end is put on a dray. From Wordnik.com. [Handwork in Wood] Reference
At hauling blocks and dollies in my little painted dray. From Wordnik.com. [A Jolly Jingle-Book] Reference
It was working to a dray, and was almost worked to death. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference
The carabao, harnessed to a dray or wagon, shuffles along 291. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Do you order them round, as if they were so many dray-horses?. From Wordnik.com. [Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends] Reference
"Pardon me, officer, but this car was forced over by that dray.". From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
In this instance a dray was backed up to the curbstone, with paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Den I got a dray an 'hauled for fifteen cents a load from de Durham depo' to. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1] Reference
We stopped here as we found dray-tracks near the creek that I wanted to trace. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Driving and dray horses may step short with the front feet, or show a stilty action. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
He is, moreover, as strong as a dray-horse, and as handy, so John declares, "as a fiddle.". From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
A few days later, there was the unusual sight of a brewer's dray drawing into the yard of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference
When Dr. Lively came in to announce the dray at the door he found his wife making for a trunk with. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
Harnessed to a dray or a wagon, it shuffles along, its big, flat feet seeming to walk all over the road. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
I caught hold of the dray-pin until I recovered myself, when I got hold of him and took the pin out of his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference
Richard noticed the driver of a large dray was leaning against the railings pouring tea into the saucer of his cup. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Mr. Lower mentions that in recent times in Sussex "Swallow" was a common name in stables, even for heavy dray horses. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
We left John Ferguson on the bank of the river, gazing on the dray safely (or rather unsafely) fixed in the bed of the river. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
It was determined by the Fergusons that the dray then on the station, should go down to town with the first load of their wool; and that. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
There could be no mistaking it -- neither could there be any reason why the driver of a Covent Garden dray should exhibit such an ensign. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
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