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drayage
  1. Transportation by dray.
  2. (by extension) The transport of goods over a short distance, particularly from a terminal such as an ocean port to another destination, usually as part of a longer transportation of the goods.
  3. A fee paid for the provision of such transportation.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Because our trade show booths are lighter in weight you save on storage, transportation, and drayage.”
      “Marinetrans Logistics is a trucking company providing drayage services in Ontario for ocean containers.”
      “Before it gets there, its driver and cab will be replaced by a drayage team that hauls the cargo to just over the other side of the border.”
dray
  1. A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads.
  2. A kind of sledge or sled.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The farmers loaded the heavy crates onto the dray to transport them to the market.”
      “They are likely to be back on the streets soon pulling the dray with the equipment to water the summer hanging baskets.”
      “We were just getting a half loaded dray and the two poler bullocks on to the punt.”
drayman
  1. (obsolete) A man who drives drays.
  2. A deliveryman for a brewery.
  3. Examples:
    1. “He was raised by his mother Lorraine, a social services worker, and father David, a domineering man who works as a brewer's drayman.”
      “On the left stands Tom Hodgson, a former drayman for Aaron King's brewery in Keighley.”
      “Rumours had it that a drayman delivering beer with his horse and cart was decapitated on his way through the passage.”
dray
  1. Alternative spelling of drey, the nest of a squirrel.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The farmers loaded the heavy crates onto the dray to transport them to the market.”
      “They are likely to be back on the streets soon pulling the dray with the equipment to water the summer hanging baskets.”
      “We were just getting a half loaded dray and the two poler bullocks on to the punt.”
draymen
  1. plural of drayman
  2. Examples:
    1. “See the Black Sheep draymen sharing a ribald joke as they lower a barrel down the drop, there it is.”
      “This includes the specialised categories of carters, draymen, drivers, hackmen, teamsters and expressmen.”
      “He was introduced to Tom and Royal, two of the four shire horses by draymen Mike Berry and Adrian Noakes and toured the brewery.”
drayages
  1. plural of drayage
drays
  1. plural of dray
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The real novelty was the stables tour to see the shire horses that pull the drays.”
      “I am especially looking for a picture of one of the brewery's drays or wagons.”
      “Once dry, it was again collected on drays, and back it went to the mill to be fed through a machine with wooden beaters, called a scutcher.”
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