different between dray vs cray

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?, IPA^(key): /d?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle English draye, dreye, from Old English dræ?e (“dragnet”), from Proto-Germanic *drag?. Cognate with Middle Low German dr?ge (“stretcher; dray”), Middle High German trage (“a litter”). Related to Old English dragan (“to pull; draw”). More at draw.

Noun

dray (plural drays)

1. A low horse-drawn cart, often without sides, and used especially for heavy loads.

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2. A kind of sledge or sled.

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Derived terms

• drayage, drayman

Translations

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

dray (plural drays)

1. Alternative spelling of drey, the nest of a squirrel.

References

• dray at OneLook Dictionary Search
• dray in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Dyar, Rady, Yard, adry, yard

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?æ?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

Noun

cray (plural crays)

1. A crayfish or lobster.
   • 2012, Robert B. McCormack, A Guide to Australia's Spiny Freshwater Crayfish (page 47)

     The third stage occurs when the crays moult into miniature adults. They are now completely independent of the mother and leave her permanently after a week or so.

Etymology 2

Clipping of crazy, with -y to clarify pronunciation. Compare vacay (“vacation”).

Adjective

cray (comparative more cray, superlative most cray)

1. (slang) Crazy.
   • 2010, Cory Giger, "NFL commish slaps Steelers in face with weak punishment of Seymour", The Altoona Mirror (Altoona, Pennsylvania), 23 November 2010:

     That small of a fine for that kind of blatant disregard is cray.

   • 2012, "Sharm x Savoy + Kiss = Happy RWD", Fazer, Issue 127, September 2012, page 80:

     Before his set, RWD somehow found time to back a quick vodka shot in the Ice Bar downstairs - yes we're aware an ice bar in the desert is cray.

   • 2013, Dani Kellner, "20 Things Your Ten Year Old Self Could Do at Cornell", Slope, Spring 2013, page 18:

     Also, make sure you look both ways first, because the traffic is cray.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cray.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:insane.

Derived terms

• cray-cray
• cray-dar

Anagrams

• Cary, cary, racy