Definition of Dray horse. Meaning of Dray horse. Synonyms of Dray horse

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Definition of Dray horse

Dray horse
Dray Dray, n. [AS. dr[ae]ge a dragnet, fr. dragan. ????. See Draw, and cf. 2d Drag, 1st Dredge.] 1. A strong low cart or carriage used for heavy burdens. --Addison. 2. A kind of sledge or sled. --Halliwell. Dray cart, a dray. Dray horse, a heavy, strong horse used in drawing a dray.

Meaning of Dray horse from wikipedia

- A draft horse (US) or draught horse (UK), also known as dray horse, carthorse, work horse or heavy horse, is a large horse bred to be a working animal...
- dray in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dray may refer to: Cart, also called dray in Australia and New Zealand Dray horse, a horse that pulls a dray...
- means of goods transport, and as a cart-horse for road transport. One traditional use was for pulling brewer's drays for delivery of beer, and some are still...
- or dray. Such carts, pulled by dray horses, were used to move goods short distances, limited by the physical limitations of a dray horse. Dray activities...
- drayman was historically the driver of a dray, a low, flat-bed wagon without sides, pulled generally by horses or mules that were used to transport all...
- A lorry or lorrie was a low flat horse-drawn vehicle with no sides, related to the trolley and dray. This version was a low-loading trolley used mainly...
- somewhat eccentric operator of around 200 pubs due to its continued use of dray horses, bans on music and mobile devices, and, in the past, low beer prices...
- the Bostonian smoothie who coolly declares: 'You know what you feed a dray horse in the morning if you want a day's work out of him? Just enough so he...
- wanted to bring the Shire dray horses back. Two years later, in 1959, he got his wish and was allowed to introduce two dray horses to the brewery's local...
- Draft horse showing (UK and Commonwealth; draught horse, dray horse or carthorse) refers to horse shows exclusively for horses of the draft horse breeds...