Present participle of dray; the act of transporting goods using a dray or cart.
From 'dray' as a verb, with '-ing' suffix. Common in commercial and historical texts describing cargo movement.
In old business documents, 'draying' appears constantly—it's the specific term for the unglamorous middle-work of commerce, the backbreaking job that made cities function.
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