different between dray vs wray

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

Alternative forms

• wreye (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English wrayen, wraien, wreien (“to show, make known, accuse”), from Old English wr??an (“to urge, incite, stir up, accuse, impeach”), from Proto-Germanic *wr?gijan? (“to tell; tell on; announce; accuse”), from Proto-Indo-European *were-, *wr?- (“to tell; speak; shout”). Akin to Dutch wroegen (“to blame”), German rügen (“to reprove”), Swedish röja (“to bewray; reveal; expose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Verb

wray (third-person singular simple present wrays, present participle wraying, simple past and past participle wrayed)

1. (obsolete) To denounce (a person).
2. (obsolete) To reveal (a secret).
   • 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Franklin's Tale", Canterbury Tales

     no thyng dorste he seye, / Save in his songes somwhat wolde he wreye / His wo

3. (obsolete) To betray.

   • Thou shalt upon thy trouthe swere me heere

     That to no wight thou shalt this conseil wreye.

Related terms

• bewray

Anagrams

• awry, wary