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Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary
6 horse related terms (carriages, anatomy, breeds, tack)
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dray
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tags: [equestrian]
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Definition:1. a low cart without fixed sides used for heavy loads2. a squirrel's nest
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A wretched Russian nag they’ll ruin, but keep good dray-horses—they won’t ruin them.
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As he went from the church, they brought him, upon a dray drawn with oxen, a confused heap of paternosters and aves of St. Claude, every one of them being of the bigness of a hat-block;
Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel
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There were five peasants—the carriers—a drunken saucy lot; horses, too, and dray-carts to see to, and then the fence would be broken or the soot afire in the chimney—jobs beyond a woman, and through our being neighbours,
Anton Chekhov. The Witch and other stories
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