dray

Plural: drays

Noun

a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage
Any of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
A kind of sledge or sled.
Alternative spelling of drey (“squirrel's nest”).

Verb

Verb Forms: drayed, draying, drays

To transport goods using a dray, a low, strong, flat cart.
To convey (goods) by dray.

Examples

I had to dray all my Scrabble tiles across the room after the board tipped over.

Origin / 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.

Synonyms

camion

Scrabble Score: 8

dray: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
dray: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
dray: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

dray: valid Words With Friends Word