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drayage

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English

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The Wadworth Brewery dray in the town centre of Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK, which still delivers beer to four pubs every weekday morning

Etymology

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From dray (a low horse-drawn cart) +‎ -age.

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drayage (countable and uncountable, plural drayages)

  1. Transportation by dray.
  2. (by extension) The transport of goods over a short distance, particularly from a terminal such as an ocean port to another destination, usually as part of a longer transportation of the goods.
  3. A fee paid for the provision of such transportation.
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drayage m (plural drayages)

  1. fleshing (of hides)