Dray

Definition: Dray

Dray

Noun

1. A low heavy horsecart without sides; used for haulage.

Date "dray" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Domain	Definition
Economics	A vehicle used to haul cargo or goods, usually drawn by a horse. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Dray

Synonym: camion (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Carrier	Beast, beast of burden, cattle, horse, nag, palfrey, Arab, blood horse, thoroughbred, galloway, charger, courser, racer, hunter, jument, pony, filly, colt, foal, barb, roan, jade, hack, bidet, pad, cob, tit, punch, roadster, goer; racehorse, pack horse, draft horse, cart horse, dray horse, post horse; ketch; Shetland pony, shelty, sheltie; garran, garron; jennet, genet, bayard, mare, stallion, gelding; bronco, broncho, cayuse; creature, critter; cow pony, mustang, Narraganset, waler; stud.
Vehicle	Noun: vehicle, conveyance, carriage, caravan, van; common carrier; wagon, waggon, wain, dray, cart, lorry.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dray

English words defined with "dray": Dray cart, Dray horse, Drayage, Drayman. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Dray" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (float), Sranan (turn, turn around, turn round).

Domain	Title
Books	The Picture of Dorian Dray [LARGE PRINT] (reference) (more book examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	[A Russian dray (cart), Harbin]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Gertie. Gertie stopping mistreatment of dray horse by threatening man with gun and whipping him. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Gertie]. As Gertie strolled along Broadway she saw the driver of a dray plying his whip .. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Each dray, or better, each ladder, was drawn by four horses tandem.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Lynch closed his ears and gave out oath after oath till the dray had passed.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Dray" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Dray" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	75%	18	82,615
Noun (proper)	12.5%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	8.33%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	4.17%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	24	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "dray" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Dray	Last name	1,000	14,081
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Expressions using "dray": become dray ♦ double dray ♦ Dray cart ♦ dray chart ♦ Dray horse. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "dray": dray-horse, dray-pulling.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "dray"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		transportoj (carry, convey, float, freight, move, portage, ship, take place, transfer, transport), qerre (cart, oxcart, tumbrel, tumbril, waggon, wagon, wain), platformë me rrota, mbart me platformë. (various references)

Arabic		‏نقل بكراحة, ‏الكراحة عربة أثقال. (various references)

Bulgarian		товарна кола (waggon, wagon), платформа (dais, deck, decking, flatcar, lorry, lurry, platform, pulpit, truck). (various references)

Czech		velké nákladní auto. (various references)

Danish		dobbeltslaede (double dray, double sled, double sledge, twin-sled, twin-sleigh, two-sled, waggon sled), stikspor (dray-road, rack, rackway, road, skidding road, snig track, timber slide, travois road), koere til og fra (to cart, to dray, to haul), afhente og tilbringe (to cart, to dray, to haul). (various references)

Dutch		dubbele slede (double dray, double sled, double sledge, twin-sled, twin-sleigh, two-sled, waggon sled), sledebaan (dray-road, timber slide), afhalen en bestellen (to cart, to dray, to haul). (various references)

Finnish		parireki (double dray, double sled, double sledge, twin-sled, twin-sleigh, two-sled, waggon sled). (various references)

French		haquet, fardier, binard. (various references)

German		zu- und abführen (to cart, to dray, to haul), Gleitbahn (slipway), an- und abrollen (to cart, to dray, to haul). (various references)

Greek		κάρο (cart, trumbrel, wagon), μεταφέρω με κάρο. (various references)

Hebrew		קרו� ית (trolley, Van, waggonette). (various references)

Hungarian		targonca (booby-hutch, cart, dolly, push cart, trolley, truck), szán (dedicate, deplore, destine, devote, mean, pity, skate, sleigh, slide, to commiserate, to deplore, to devote, to intend, train), szekér (cart, chariot, wagon), stráfkocsi (flat waggon, float, gilly), söröskocsi, pőrekocsi (flat waggon, flatcar, gondola-car, platform car). (various references)

Italian		carro pesante. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		荷馬車 (cart, wagon). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		にばしゃ (cart, wagon). (various references)

Manx		drug. (various references)

Pig Latin		aydray

Portuguese		zorra (sled, sledge), carrinho (bobbin, carriage, coil, spool, stand, trolley, typewriter carriage). (various references)

Romanian		platformã (foothold, pathway, platform, stand, truck), camion (camion, lorry, motor-lorry, pulley, rolley), cãruţã (caravan, carload, cart, waggon, wain). (various references)

Russian		подвода. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		teretna kola (cart, waggon, wagon). (various references)

Spanish		carro pesado, carro con pesa. (various references)

Swedish		flakvagn (lorry, lurry, open-sided waggon). (various references)

Turkish		yük arabası (dray chart, trolley, waggon, wagon, wain). (various references)

Ukrainian		вантажна платформа, підвода. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Song of Solomon Chapter 1, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai osmh murwn sou uper panta ta arwmata muron ekkenwqen onoma sou dia touto neanideV hgaphsan se
Latin	405	Vulgate	Trahe me post te curremus introduxit me rex in cellaria sua exultabimus et laetabimur in te memores uberum tuorum super vinum recti diligunt te
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	Dray me aftir thee; wee shul rennen in the smel of thin oynemens. The Chirche seith of Crist. Broyte me in the king in to his celeris; wee shul ful out ioyen, and gladen in thee, myndeful of thi tetes, vp on wyn; riyt men loouen thee. The Chirche of hir tribulaciouns.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Because of the savor of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Song of Solomon Chapter 1, Verse 3
Cebuano	Ang imong mga lana adunay maayong kahumot; Ang imong ngalan sama sa lana nga gibubo; Busa ang mga ulay nahagugma kanimo.
Croatian	Miris najboljih mirodija, ulje razlito ime je tvoje, zato te ljube djevojke.
Danish	Lifligt dufter dine Salver, dit Navn er en udgydt Salve, derfor har Kvinder dig kær.
Dutch	Uw olien zijn goed tot reuk, Uw naam is een olie, die uitgestort wordt; daarom hebben U de maagden lief.
Finnish	Suloinen on voiteittesi tuoksu, vuodatettu öljy on sinun nimesi; sentähden sinua nuoret naiset rakastavat.
French	Tes parfums ont une odeur suave; Ton nom est un parfum qui se répand; C`est pourquoi les jeunes filles t`aiment.
German	Es riechen deine Salben köstlich; dein Name ist eine ausgeschüttete Salbe, darum lieben dich die Jungfrauen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Engkau harum semerbak, namamu seperti minyak wangi yang tertumpah; sebab itulah gadis-gadis cinta padamu!
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Bau minyakmu itu harum, maka namamu seperti minyak bau-bauan yang tercurah, sebab itu segala anak darapun birahi akan dikau.
Italian	Per la fragranza sono inebrianti i tuoi profumi, profumo olezzante è il tuo nome, per questo le giovinette ti amano.
Maori	He kakara pai to ou hinu; ko tou ingoa ano he hinu kua oti te riringi; na reira i aroha ai nga wahine ki a koe.
Norwegian	Liflig er duften av dine salver, ditt navn er en utgytt salve; derfor elsker jomfruene dig.
Portuguese	Suave é o cheiro dos teus perfumes; como perfume derramado é o teu nome; por isso as donzelas te amam.
Rumanian	mirodeniile tale au un miros plqcut. Numele tqu este ca o mireasmq vqrsatq. De aceea te iubesc pe tine fetele!
Russian	чМЕЛЙ НЕОС, НЩ � П�'ЕЦЙН ЪБ ФП�'ПА; --�"БТШ ЧЧЕМ НЕОС Ч ЮЕТФПЗЙ УЧПЙ, --�'Х�"ЕН ЧПУИЙЭБФШУС Й ТБ�"ПЧБФШУС ФП�'ПА, � ТЕЧПЪОПУЙФШ МБУЛЙ ФЧПЙ �'ПМШЫЕ, ОЕЦЕМЙ ЧЙОП; �"ПУФПКОП МА�'СФ ФЕ�'С!
Swedish	Ljuv är doften av dina salvor, ja, en utgjuten salva är ditt namn; fördenskull hava tärnorna dig kär.
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "dray": drayage, drayages, drayed, draying, drayman, draymen, drays. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dray" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: darry, darsy, dary, daya, Deray, dhai, djay, dra, draa, draak, drac, Drady, drae, draf, drai, draic, drak, draky, drap, draq, drav, drax, draye, draz, dreay, dreazy, drei, drery, Dreu, Drewy, drex, drey, Dreye, dreyt, Drii, drij, driy, Droi, druh, druie, drva, drya, dryg, dryq, dryt, dryx, duay, Durey, dyar, eray, rdai. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "dray" (pronounced drā")
2	-r ā"	astray, betray, Brae, Bray, defray, fray, Gray, grey, hooray, hurray, portray, pray, prey, puree, Ray, re, soiree, spray, stray, tray, Trey.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: yard.
	Words within the letters "a-d-r-y"
	-1 letter: day, dry, rad, ray, rya, yar.
	-2 letters: ad, ar, ay, ya.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-r-y"
	+1 letter: dairy, darky, deary, deray, diary, drays, dryad, hardy, hydra, lardy, lyard, pardy, randy, rayed, ready, tardy, yaird, yards.
	+2 letters: aridly, bawdry, bayard, boyard, brandy, brayed, bready, byroad, darkey, darkly, datary, daubry, dearly, defray, denary, derays, drably, draffy, drafty, draggy, drapey, drawly, drayed, dreamy, dreary, dryads, frayed, grayed, hardly, hydrae, hydras, hydria, myriad, parody, prayed, redbay, sudary, tawdry, yairds, yarded, yarned.
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