dray

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

n.


an ordinary cart for goods. See quotation, 1872.

1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. i. Intro. p. xlix:

«They send their produce to the market . . . receiving suppliesfor home consumption on the return of their drays or carts fromthence.»

1872. C. H. Eden, «My Wife and I in Queensland,' p. 31:

«A horse dray, as known in Australia, is by no means theenormous thing its name would signify, but simply an ordinarycart on two wheels without springs.» [There are alsospring-drays.]

1886. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 41:

«One told by camp fires when the station drays

Were housed and hidden, forty years ago.»

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