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

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

Pronunciation

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.

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