Middle English Dictionary Entry
draie n.
Entry Info
| Forms | draie n. |
| Etymology | OE dræge dragnet; cp. MLG drage, MHG trage a litter. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A wheelless vehicle for hauling, a sledge; also, a cart with wheels; (b) ~ lode, as much of a load as is normally hauled on a dray, a cartload.
Associated quotations
a
- (1370) Acc.St.Michael Bath in SANHS 239 : In Trocleis emptis..pro uno dreye, v d.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.145 : He sent it on a dreye [L rheda] as it were venysoun.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)279a/b : Þey leggeþ oon of hem vpright on þe grounde in stede of a slede oþer of a draye..and draweth him home to here dennes.
- (1422) Plea & Mem.in Bk.Lond.E.129/263 : William Clauson hath stondyng in þe strete a dray þat is hynderyng to þe Pepill.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)7.39 : Bakward [on a kind of reaping machine] beth twey thilles maad ful sure, And forward hath a drey.
- (a1472) Acc.Bodmin in Camd.n.s.1416 : To Thomas Archer for mendyng the dreyes.
- ?a1500 Trin-C.LEDict.Suppl.(Trin-C O.5.4)617/10 : [Traha, hoc genus est vehiculi a trahendo dicta, quia rotas non habet:] a Dreye.
b
- (1454) in Scrope Castle Combe [OD col.]207 : Unum cariagium subbosci vocatum a drey-lode pro faciendo ignem.