Drayed

/dreɪd/ verb

Definition

Past tense of dray; transported goods using a dray or similar low cart.

Etymology

From 'dray' as a verb, with standard '-ed' past tense. Emerged as dray became both noun and verb in commercial usage.

Kelly Says

When you see 'drayed' in old shipping records, you're reading the vocabulary of 18th and 19th-century logistics—it shows how specific industries create past-tense verbs from their tools.

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