drayage

English

WOTD – 24 June 2017
The Wadworth Brewery dray in the town centre of Devizes, Wiltshire, England, UK, which still delivers beer to four pubs every weekday morning
An intermodal or shipping container being transported by flatbed lorry in Manila, Philippines

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɹeɪ.ɪdʒ/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: dray‧age

Noun

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.

Translations

Further reading

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Noun

drayage m (plural drayages)

  1. fleshing (of hides)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.