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Definition of bray : 1. A bank; the slope of a hill; a hill. See Brae, which is now the usual spelling.
2. The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.
3. To make a harsh, grating, or discordant noise.
4. To make or utter with a loud, discordant, or harsh and grating sound.
5. To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.
6. To utter a loud, harsh cry, as an ass.

Synonyms:

moil, labor, chat up, grind, chuckle, scranch, dig, crunch, labour, hiss, scoff, yell, craunch, hee-haw, atomize, disintegrate, travail, butterfly, munch, baa, dally, comminute, laugh, romance, coquette, mill, force a smile/laugh, squelch, toil, flirt, pound, mull, snicker, pulverize, beat, help, croak, powder, squash, scraunch, triturate, coquet, squeeze, drudge, grate, crackle, cranch, snigger, granulate, giggle, sound, crush, mash, philander

cry, chirp, call, snort, chatter, grunt, bleat, growl, moo, purr, mew, squawk, cuckoo, whinny, gobble, honk, bellow, bay, cluck, roar, snarl, coo, neigh, warble, hoot, yelp, squeal, trill, twit, caw, howl, ululate, quack, meow, bawl, cackle, crow, bark

ululation

Usage examples:

• Under urgent pressure from the Czar, Schwarzenberg had pushed forward two columns from Troyes towards Paris: one of them had seized the bridge over the Seine at Bray, a day's march below Nogent: the other was nearing Fontainebleau. - "The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)", John Holland Rose.
• Sir Philip Crampton told me that when his friend, Sir Walter Scott, was at Lough Bray, on his last visit, a boat excursion was proposed. - "Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children", Grace Greenwood.
• Occasionally the piping voice of a boy and the melancholy bray of a mule broke the deep silence of the place. - "In the Heart of a Fool", William Allen White.