drey

dray

/ (dreɪ) /

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noun

a squirrel's nest

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Word Origin for drey

C17: of unknown origin

Words nearby drey

dress-up, dressy, dressy casual, drest, drew, drey, Dreyfus, Dreyfus affair, Dreyfusard, DRG, drib

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How to use drey in a sentence

I remember a pair that made a hole in a beech near the tree my drey was in.
Birds and Man|W. H. Hudson
Au´drey, a country wench, who jilted William for Touchstone.
Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1|The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
Tiro se o tem, mi-duvel, tiro o zoozlu vast, tiro sor koskopen drey sor cheros.
The English Gipsies and Their Language|Charles G. Leland
A boy has taken three little young squirrels in their nest or drey.
Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 116, January 17, 1852|Various

Then the poems: Morduth, ein altes heroisches Gedichte in drey Bchern.
Ossian in Germany|Rudolf Tombo