different between dray vs deray

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

Etymology

From Old French derroi, desroi, desrei, from des- (from Latin dis-) + roi, rei, rai (“order”). See array and disarray.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???e?/

Noun

deray

1. (obsolete) Disorder, disturbance.
2. (archaic) Disarray, confusion.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 26:

     […] the exasperated Whigs […] were the men in fact that wrought the most deray among the populace.

3. (obsolete) Disorderly merriment; partying.

Verb

deray (third-person singular simple present derays, present participle deraying, simple past and past participle derayed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To derange.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To become deranged; to go wild.

Anagrams

• Ready, Yarde, dayer, deary, rayed, ready, yeard