dray
dray — noun
- draysingular
- draysplural
1. a flat horse cart from earlier times that carried barrels, sacks, and other heav
a flat horse cart from earlier times that carried barrels, sacks, and other heavy loads
At dawn, Tendai loaded flour sacks onto the dray behind the mill.
load + goods onto a dray
The old dray carried beer barrels from the yard to the inn.
dray for heavy barrels
Two horses pulled the dray through town while children waved from shop doors.
Museum visitors climbed onto the dray to see how goods once moved.
文法句型
load + [goods] onto + a dray
pull + a dray + through/to + [place]
use + a dray + to carry + [load]
用法筆記
Mostly found in historical writing, museum labels, or accounts of older delivery work. It usually refers to a low horse-drawn vehicle used for heavy freight rather than an ordinary small cart.
常見錯誤
dray — verb
- draypresent simple I / you / we / they
- drays3rd person singular
- draying-ing form
- drayedpast simple
1. to move goods by putting them on a horse cart and taking them somewhere
to move goods by putting them on a horse cart and taking them somewhere
Workers drayed the beer barrels from the yard to the inn before noon.
dray + goods + to + place
Before rail lines arrived, farmers drayed wool into town every winter.
The crew drayed bricks across the muddy lane to the new school.
After the bridge broke, traders drayed rice along the river road instead.
文法句型
dray + [goods] + to + [place]
dray + [load] + through/across + [place]
用法筆記
This verb is mostly seen in historical descriptions of transport. The object is usually heavy goods such as barrels, wool, bricks, or grain. Distinguish it from noun sense 1: here the word names the action, not the vehicle.