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词汇 dray
释义 dray
noun[ C ]
uk /dreɪ/ us /dreɪ/
a large, low carriage with four wheels, pulled by horses(车身大而低的)马拉板车,平板大车
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Carriages & carts
brougham
buggy
carriage
carryall
cart
chaise
chuckwagon
coupe
dogcart
gig
horse-drawn
horsebox
musher
ox-drawn
popemobile
sedan chair
stagecoach
surrey
trishaw
wagon
Examples from literature

A hundred times he had to step quickly to avoid hand truck, or dray, or laden wagon. 
Drays were provided to carry our luggage, but we ourselves had to walk. 
Everything was still on the streets except the clatter of the milk carts, and the early drays and huckster wagons. 
The clang of the trolleys, the rumble of the drays, the rushing of the people! 
The drays joined us early, having performed an immense distance yesterday. 

Examples of dray


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A dray makes its way along the drive towards the place where it is to pick up the milk.
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When we have a racehorse, we do not think of using it to pull a dray.
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He was told that it was to drive into the town with a dray laden with cider.
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It was as dependent on the horsebus—the hansom cab and the dray—as it was on the passenger and goods trains.
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The driver of a two-horse dray, driving at a furious speed, does the same thing and is not guilty of a crime.
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Dray-cote is one that is being planned with full recreational facilities from the start.
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In those days road safety—yes, one could be knocked over by a dray—was not the issue that it is today.
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With a blind pony on the top in a cart or dray the driver has a pair of reins and can drive the horse straight.
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It started raining while the men who had been transferring the flour from a railway truck to a dray were away at lunch, and they had not covered the bags.
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Examples of gigs, swamp drays, drags, broughams, phaetons, bakers' carts, surreys, expresses, rigs, sociables, governess carts, night carts and milk carts are exhibited.
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In early days the flexible two-wheeled dray, with a centre pole and narrow iron tyres was commonly used.
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Paired horse drays were phased out by 1929.
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The records show that there were normally six heavy horses which were used to pull the drays.
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A dray cart, placed across the road, remained at the far end of the ambush site.
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At the brewery, he determined that local deliveries by horse drawn drays should continue into the 21st century.
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