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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dray/#m1)

2) (Australia, old) Any cart or wagon for carrying goods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dray/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dray/#x1)
- In Victorian London, drays rattled over the cobbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dray/#x2)
- The brewery shows its drays at the county fair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dray/#x3)
- The barrels were loaded onto the dray. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dray/#x4)
- Shire horses are often used as dray horses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dray/#x5)
- In old Australia, drays carried wool to the ports. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dray/#x6)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dray/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.