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plural drays
Any of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads. quotations examples
Standing foursquare in the heart of the town, at the intersection of the two main streets, a “jog” at each street corner left around the market-house a little public square, which at this hour was well occupied by carts and wagons from the country and empty drays awaiting hire
1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars
Let him be brought into the field of election upon his dray-cart.
September 28 1710, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner
A kind of sledge or sled. examples
Alternative spelling of drey (“squirrel's nest”) examples