Monday, September 28, 2015

tray, trey

Tray or tray means a large platter; a flat or shallow container--
Here comes the waiter with a tray of drinks.
Does this desk have a keyboard tray?

Trey or trey ( rhymes with tray ) is an old-fashioned word for "three", in a deck of cards or a set of dice--
Ace, deuce, trey--I win.
Don't play a trey; we'll lose the trick.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"The missing trey was stuck to the bottom of the sandwich tray."

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