Past tense of dray; transported goods using a dray or similar low cart.
From 'dray' as a verb, with standard '-ed' past tense. Emerged as dray became both noun and verb in commercial usage.
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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