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Definition of Drays
1. dray [v] - See also: dray
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drays
Literary usage of Drays
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Led On!: Step by Step, Scenes from Clerical, Military, Educational, and by Anthony Toomer Porter (1898)
"An unfeeling bank president who finds in me his match—My congregation sympathize
and assist—Seven drays full of groceries unexpectedly drive into my yard—An ..."
2. My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience by Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1890)
"A Bevy of Nurses —A sorrow- stricken Mother — Soldiers from the City Hospitals —
More loaded drays — More Men and Women come and go — The Day declines ..."
3. Land, Labour, and Gold: Or, Two Years in Victoria with Visits to Sydney and by William Howitt (1858)
"Agreeable Characteristics of the Diggings Musical Diggers—Good Fortune of a Smith.
— Decamping with loaded Bullock drays. — A Fortune out of an old Bucket. ..."
4. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted: To by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"... but that sacks, horses, and drays, " forming, as it were, part of the implements
of trade," did pass (Delany v. Delany, 15 LR Jr. 55: as to Book Debts, ..."
5. History of the Wyandott Mission, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Under the by James Bradley Finley (1840)
"At New- burgh^-At New York — They lodge at Dr. Pitt's — Are disturbed with drays
and carts passing ..."
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