drayn.¹

Brit.

/dreɪ/, U.S.

/dreɪ/

Forms: Also Middle English–1600s draye, drey(e.

Etymology: A derivative of Old English dragan to draw: compare Old English dræge dragnet, also Swedish drög sledge, dray, (Old Norse draga, plural drögur timber trailed along the ground).

†a. A sled or cart without wheels, formerly much used for dragging wood, turf, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of goods

sleadc1374

draya1387

sled1388

slipe1488

slid1513

drag1576

sledge1684

skid1712

paddock1738

sleigh1748

train1783

bobsled1796

bobsleigh1841

bob1856

stone-boat1859

travois1873

slider1888

bobs1910

1369–70 Abingdon Acc. (Camden) 17 In vna dreia empta xiiijd. In rasteis vijd. ob.]

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 145 He sent it on a dreye as it were venysoun.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxix. 1173 Þey leggeþ oon of hem vpright on þe grounde in stede of a slede oþer of a draye..and draweþ him home to here dennes.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 617/10 Traha..a trahendo dicta, quia rotas non habet [anglice a Dreye].

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dray or sleade whych goeth without wheles.

b. A sled used in dragging logs in the woods. Also attributive and in other combinations. U.S.

ΚΠ

1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail vii. 52 A number of pines had been felled out on the ice, cut in logs, and left in expectation of ice thick enough to bear the travoy ‘dray’.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 36 Dray, a single sled used in dragging logs. One end of the log rests upon the sled.

1969 L. G. Sorden Lumberjack Lingo 36 Dray, two runners with a bunk in the center to haul logs out of the woods; a single sled used in dragging logs.

†2. ‘A little cart’ or car on wheels. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > other light or small

dray1565

Windsor chair1724

ekka1811

Jersey wagon1811

spanker1831

bounder1842

1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Curulis.. a little cart or drey hauing in it a chaire of estate.

c1610–15 Life Holie Dympna in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 48 To fasten it to her litle cart or drey.

a. A low cart without sides used for carrying heavy loads: esp. that used by brewers.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > low or without sides

roll-wainc1503

dray1581

troll1663

dray-cart1710

rulley1759

truck1774

trolley1823

gambo1836

lorry1838

platform car1843

platform wagon1850

trolley-cart1865

float1866

wherry?1881

camion1885

rolley1886

floater1888

sloven1889

1581 [implied in: Fleetwood in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 285 They brought unto me..vi tall fellowes that were draymen unto bruers. (at drayman n. 1)].

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Haquet, a Dray; a low and open Cart, such as London Brewers vse.

1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes App. 32 I saw a large broad Dray..drawne into the Castle by three or foure Horses.

1700 H. Maundrell Let. in Journey to Jerusalem (1703) sig. T3 Old batter'd Horses, such as are often seen in Drays.

1862 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 455 A stoppage, caused by some brewer's dray.

b. Any two-wheeled cart. Australian and New Zealand.

ΚΠ

1833 C. Sturt Two Exped. S. Austral. I. p. xlix They send their produce to the market..receiving supplies for home consumption, on the return of their drays or carts from thence.

1846 A. Whisker Memo Book 9 Jan. (MS.) I. 21 One of the Drays broke Down about 1 mile from the camp with shot and rum on it.

1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland ii. 31 A horse-dray, as known in Australia, is by no means the enormous thing its name would signify, but simply an ordinary cart on two wheels without springs.

1926 ‘J. Doone’ Timely Tips for New Australians Gloss. Dray: In Australia this word denotes the springless type of cart generally being equipped with a tipping attachment.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

dray-load n.

ΚΠ

1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes 78 A Dray load more of Match.

1866 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) vii. 49 It was preceded by two dray-loads of small rough-hewn stone piles.

1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xiv. 118 With stacks of love to all at home, and a whole dray-load for yourself, from your loving sister, Sybylla.

1959 J. Pascoe N.Z. Sheep-Station 19 Then the ‘clip’ of wool is baled and driven across the Rakaia in dray-loads to be taken by trucks to the wool sale down country.

dray-track n.

ΚΠ

1859 F. Fuller Five Years' Resid. N.Z. viii. 149 Improvements..[to] his Run..[consist of] partial cuttings for the dray-track where required to be made.

1866 J. Murray Descr. Province Southland iii. 19 When such bridges, culverts and crossings as cannot be dispensed with are made, the track which is often on the line of an old bridle path, becomes a ‘dray track’.

1944 F. Clune Red Heart 81 I don't need any dray-tracks to find what I'm looking for.

C2.

dray-cart n. = sense 3a, 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > low or without sides

roll-wainc1503

dray1581

troll1663

dray-cart1710

rulley1759

truck1774

trolley1823

gambo1836

lorry1838

platform car1843

platform wagon1850

trolley-cart1865

float1866

wherry?1881

camion1885

rolley1886

floater1888

sloven1889

1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 3 Let him be brought into the Field of Election upon his Dray-cart.

1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress (1854) 3 The horses were kept at work in the dray-carts.

1848 Handbk. N.Z. v. 97 Dray-carts drawn by bullocks are chiefly used.

dray-haul v. transitive to drag or haul on a dray.,

ΚΠ

1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail vii. 49 When are you going to dray-haul that Norway [pine] across Pine Lake?

dray-plough n. (see quot. 1738).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > plough without wheel or foot

dray-plough1707

1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 40 The dray plough, which is the best Plough in Winter for slimy Clays.

1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Plough Dray Plough is the most common.—It is made without either wheel or foot.

dray-road n. (see quot. 1905).

ΚΠ

1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventures N.Z. II. vi. 159 The proprietors constructed a dray-road up the steep side.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 36 Dray road, a narrow road, cut wide enough to allow the passage of a team and dray.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 14 Dec. 14/1 For four hot and weary days I had tramped along lonely and disused dray-roads and bridle-paths that led from a little mining township in the northern part of New South Wales to the coast.

1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xx. 188 It [sc. the pack-team] also, in olden days before the advent of a dray-road, played an important part in station activities.

Derivatives

dray v. to convey on a dray. Also to dray in (U.S.).

ΚΠ

1858 F. D. Bell Let. 6 Sept. in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 423 I have arranged with Johnny Jones that he shall have a large shepherd's house..and woolshed—to be drayed up so as to have no waste timber.

1869 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1874) vi. 39 My house is being cut out in Christchurch and will be drayed to our station next month, a journey of fifty miles.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 36 Dray in, to, to drag logs from the place where they are cut directly to the skidway or landing.

ˈdraying n. Also attributive.

ΚΠ

1857 Lyttelton (N.Z.) Times 13 May 8/1 Stock owners have been enabled to complete their draying operations with ease.

1859 F. Fuller Five Years' Resid. N.Z. viii. 149 Such tracks may become available..for draying down the squatters' produce.

1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 248 A single gentleman connected with the draying business.

1906 ‘O. Henry’ Rolling Stones (1915) 13 You can get me a bunch of draying contracts.

1942 A. Koroleff Efficiency in Skidding Wood 5/2 Other methods in which log carriers of some kind are used (such as ‘bobbing’, ‘draying’, ‘boganning’, etc.).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	dray
释义	drayn.¹ Brit. /dreɪ/, U.S. /dreɪ/ Forms: Also Middle English–1600s draye, drey(e. Etymology: A derivative of Old English dragan to draw: compare Old English dræge dragnet, also Swedish drög sledge, dray, (Old Norse draga, plural drögur timber trailed along the ground). 1. †a. A sled or cart without wheels, formerly much used for dragging wood, turf, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of goods sleadc1374 draya1387 sled1388 slipe1488 slid1513 drag1576 sledge1684 skid1712 paddock1738 sleigh1748 train1783 bobsled1796 bobsleigh1841 bob1856 stone-boat1859 travois1873 slider1888 bobs1910 1369–70 Abingdon Acc. (Camden) 17 In vna dreia empta xiiijd. In rasteis vijd. ob.] a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 145 He sent it on a dreye as it were venysoun. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xxix. 1173 Þey leggeþ oon of hem vpright on þe grounde in stede of a slede oþer of a draye..and draweþ him home to here dennes. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 617/10 Traha..a trahendo dicta, quia rotas non habet [anglice a Dreye]. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Dray or sleade whych goeth without wheles. b. A sled used in dragging logs in the woods. Also attributive and in other combinations. U.S. ΚΠ 1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail vii. 52 A number of pines had been felled out on the ice, cut in logs, and left in expectation of ice thick enough to bear the travoy ‘dray’. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 36 Dray, a single sled used in dragging logs. One end of the log rests upon the sled. 1969 L. G. Sorden Lumberjack Lingo 36 Dray, two runners with a bunk in the center to haul logs out of the woods; a single sled used in dragging logs. †2. ‘A little cart’ or car on wheels. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > other light or small dray1565 Windsor chair1724 ekka1811 Jersey wagon1811 spanker1831 bounder1842 1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Curulis.. a little cart or drey hauing in it a chaire of estate. c1610–15 Life Holie Dympna in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 48 To fasten it to her litle cart or drey. 3. a. A low cart without sides used for carrying heavy loads: esp. that used by brewers. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > low or without sides roll-wainc1503 dray1581 troll1663 dray-cart1710 rulley1759 truck1774 trolley1823 gambo1836 lorry1838 platform car1843 platform wagon1850 trolley-cart1865 float1866 wherry?1881 camion1885 rolley1886 floater1888 sloven1889 1581 [implied in: Fleetwood in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 285 They brought unto me..vi tall fellowes that were draymen unto bruers. (at drayman n. 1)]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Haquet, a Dray; a low and open Cart, such as London Brewers vse. 1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes App. 32 I saw a large broad Dray..drawne into the Castle by three or foure Horses. 1700 H. Maundrell Let. in Journey to Jerusalem (1703) sig. T3 Old batter'd Horses, such as are often seen in Drays. 1862 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 455 A stoppage, caused by some brewer's dray. b. Any two-wheeled cart. Australian and New Zealand. ΚΠ 1833 C. Sturt Two Exped. S. Austral. I. p. xlix They send their produce to the market..receiving supplies for home consumption, on the return of their drays or carts from thence. 1846 A. Whisker Memo Book 9 Jan. (MS.) I. 21 One of the Drays broke Down about 1 mile from the camp with shot and rum on it. 1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland ii. 31 A horse-dray, as known in Australia, is by no means the enormous thing its name would signify, but simply an ordinary cart on two wheels without springs. 1926 ‘J. Doone’ Timely Tips for New Australians Gloss. Dray: In Australia this word denotes the springless type of cart generally being equipped with a tipping attachment. Compounds C1. General attributive. dray-load n. ΚΠ 1644 W. Prynne & C. Walker True Relation Prosecution N. Fiennes 78 A Dray load more of Match. 1866 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1870) vii. 49 It was preceded by two dray-loads of small rough-hewn stone piles. 1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xiv. 118 With stacks of love to all at home, and a whole dray-load for yourself, from your loving sister, Sybylla. 1959 J. Pascoe N.Z. Sheep-Station 19 Then the ‘clip’ of wool is baled and driven across the Rakaia in dray-loads to be taken by trucks to the wool sale down country. dray-track n. ΚΠ 1859 F. Fuller Five Years' Resid. N.Z. viii. 149 Improvements..[to] his Run..[consist of] partial cuttings for the dray-track where required to be made. 1866 J. Murray Descr. Province Southland iii. 19 When such bridges, culverts and crossings as cannot be dispensed with are made, the track which is often on the line of an old bridle path, becomes a ‘dray track’. 1944 F. Clune Red Heart 81 I don't need any dray-tracks to find what I'm looking for. C2. dray-cart n. = sense 3a, 1b. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > low or without sides roll-wainc1503 dray1581 troll1663 dray-cart1710 rulley1759 truck1774 trolley1823 gambo1836 lorry1838 platform car1843 platform wagon1850 trolley-cart1865 float1866 wherry?1881 camion1885 rolley1886 floater1888 sloven1889 1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 3 Let him be brought into the Field of Election upon his Dray-cart. 1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress (1854) 3 The horses were kept at work in the dray-carts. 1848 Handbk. N.Z. v. 97 Dray-carts drawn by bullocks are chiefly used. dray-haul v. transitive to drag or haul on a dray., ΚΠ 1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail vii. 49 When are you going to dray-haul that Norway [pine] across Pine Lake? dray-plough n. (see quot. 1738). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > ploughing equipment > [noun] > plough > plough without wheel or foot dray-plough1707 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 40 The dray plough, which is the best Plough in Winter for slimy Clays. 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Plough Dray Plough is the most common.—It is made without either wheel or foot. dray-road n. (see quot. 1905). ΚΠ 1845 E. J. Wakefield Adventures N.Z. II. vi. 159 The proprietors constructed a dray-road up the steep side. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 36 Dray road, a narrow road, cut wide enough to allow the passage of a team and dray. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 14 Dec. 14/1 For four hot and weary days I had tramped along lonely and disused dray-roads and bridle-paths that led from a little mining township in the northern part of New South Wales to the coast. 1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xx. 188 It [sc. the pack-team] also, in olden days before the advent of a dray-road, played an important part in station activities. Derivatives dray v. to convey on a dray. Also to dray in (U.S.). ΚΠ 1858 F. D. Bell Let. 6 Sept. in Richmond-Atkinson Papers (1960) I. 423 I have arranged with Johnny Jones that he shall have a large shepherd's house..and woolshed—to be drayed up so as to have no waste timber. 1869 M. A. Barker Station Life N.Z. (1874) vi. 39 My house is being cut out in Christchurch and will be drayed to our station next month, a journey of fifty miles. 1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 36 Dray in, to, to drag logs from the place where they are cut directly to the skidway or landing. ˈdraying n. Also attributive. ΚΠ 1857 Lyttelton (N.Z.) Times 13 May 8/1 Stock owners have been enabled to complete their draying operations with ease. 1859 F. Fuller Five Years' Resid. N.Z. viii. 149 Such tracks may become available..for draying down the squatters' produce. 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million 248 A single gentleman connected with the draying business. 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Rolling Stones (1915) 13 You can get me a bunch of draying contracts. 1942 A. Koroleff Efficiency in Skidding Wood 5/2 Other methods in which log carriers of some kind are used (such as ‘bobbing’, ‘draying’, ‘boganning’, etc.). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online December 2020). draydreyn.² Brit. /dreɪ/, U.S. /dreɪ/ Forms: Also 1600s draie, draye. Etymology: Origin unknown. ? Same word as dray n.¹ local. A squirrel's nest. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > [noun] > family Sciuridae (squirrel) > dray dray1607 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 497 They..make their nestes, like the draies of squirrels. 1627 M. Drayton Quest of Cynthia in Battaile Agincourt 141 The nimble Squirrell..Her mossy Dray that makes. a1793 G. White Observ. Quadrupeds in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1802) II. 211 Three little young squirrels in their nest or drey as it is called in these parts. 1889 Eng. Ill. Mag. Dec. 211 [They] lay their eggs in old nests, very often in old squirrel's drays. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹a1387n.²1607
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drayn.1

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