frayed
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"T' ould gray drayed off directly, and he's gane tull t' loike bricks-- but t' bay's no but sillyish--he keeps a breaking oot again for iver-- and sae Ay'se give him a hot maash enow!"
From Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago by Herbert, Henry William
My greatest interest and occupation consist in going to look at my house, which is being cut out in Christchurch, and will be drayed to our station next month, a journey of fifty miles.
From Station Life in New Zealand by Barker, Lady (Mary Anne)
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