dray
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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
At the same time, he turned the Joint Special Operations Command into a dray horse.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2017
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
Construction is also more expensive than building on the mainland, since materials must be transported to the island by ferry and then to the building site by horse and dray.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2016
Two men in leather aprons were unloading beer barrels down a ramp from the dray cart.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
For many years Young's drays and horses were a familiar sight in Wandsworth, south-west London.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 9, 2011
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
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
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
