drays

Noun (1)

dray (plural drays)

1. (historical) Any of various forms of low horse-drawn cart or wagon, often without sides or with removable sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
   • Let him be brought into the field of election upon his dray-cart.1710 September 28, Joseph Addison, Whig-Examiner
2. A kind of sledge or sled.

Noun (2)

dray (plural drays)

1. (collective, rare) A group of squirrels.
   • He told how the herons always came at St. Valentine's to Felborough Wood and Chilham, and how the terns came in screaming gaggles when September was ending, and where the squirrels' drays were mostly found, and where he had seen a cete of badgers.1927, Alfred Tresidder Sheppard, Here Comes an Old Sailor, page 246

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