dray
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In good times, like last year, dray operators command whatever the market must pay to keep them rolling.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
Part of that effort is the Port of Seattle’s ongoing installation of shore power, having charging infrastructure for dray trucks and working to accommodate sustainable aviation fuels at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
Government authorities had refused to supply him with provisions or a bullock dray, so he was forced to stay with the very squatters whose conduct he was supposed to examine.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2019
It’s as if, instead of the Kentucky Derby, viewers were urged to enjoy the spectacle of thoroughbreds harnessed as dray horses.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 27, 2017
When a dairy wagon passed in the other direction, I watched the two beautiful white-footed dray horses that were pulling it.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
For many years Young's drays and horses were a familiar sight in Wandsworth, south-west London.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2011
Horse-drawn streetcars moved east and west along Sixty-third, amid a dense traffic of carriages and drays.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Even the lords rode garrons or shaggy Harlaw ponies, and ox carts were more common than drays.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
Olmsted in particular felt the pressure but also felt hobbled by the persistent delays in installation of exhibits and the damage done by the repeated comings and goings of drays and freight cars.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
He swept up, ran errands, weighed bags, and lifted them onto the drays.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
