dray

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Recent Examples of dray The situation is especially fraught for the nation’s 75,000 dray operators and other foot soldiers of the supply chain. Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2022 While bikes are permitted, the most efficient way to deliver packages are through dray wagon horse carriages. Dixita Limbachia, Detroit Free Press, 13 Aug. 2019
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Noun
  • There was little shelter for the newcomers, and only those with money could obtain oxcarts.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Peer into the daily lives of early German Texans The days of freighters and oxcarts making their arduous way across Texas and Mexico from Indianola ended in 1860 when the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad and the Indianola Railroad joined up in Victoria.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • The Boilermakers had a particularly audacious opening — wins over then-No. 2 Alabama and a good Ole Miss team, losses to Texas A&M, Marquette and the wagon that is Auburn.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Stay in one of the Avalanche Ranch Cabins and Hot Springs’ log cabins or wagons, constructed between 1890 and 1950.
    Jennifer Broome, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In the past month alone, more than 300 Amazon shoppers have added it to their carts.
    Nicol Natale, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Men and women filed by the long tables, filling their bags and pull carts with apples, frozen fish, pasta and chicken breasts.
    Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 17 Jan. 2025

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“Dray.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dray. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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