Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A driver of a dray.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man who drives and manages a dray.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man who attends a dray.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A man who drives
drays . - noun A
deliveryman for abrewery .
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Examples
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Finally she called the drayman to come ahead and carry down what she intended me to have, and father accompanied the boy - leaving Mrs. Crumpler and I alone.
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I told her I believed you would, "I told her to pack her trunk, and if she was down town near the time for the boat to leave for Cleveland, to call a drayman to take her trunk to the boat and follow it, if possible, before Mrs. Cassaday came in.
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland
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I told her I believed you would,” I told her to pack her trunk, and if she was down town near the time for the boat to leave for Cleveland, to call a drayman to take her trunk to the boat and follow it, if possible, before Mrs. Cassaday came in.
A Woman's Life-Work Haviland, Laura S 1881
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He went to work as a drayman at first, with one horse and one cart, and worked like a fiend for his whole life, mainly doing interpreting work for immigration officials.
Mae Ngai's "The Lucky Ones: The Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America" 2010
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He went to work as a drayman at first, with one horse and one cart, and worked like a fiend for his whole life, mainly doing interpreting work for immigration officials.
Mae Ngai's "The Lucky Ones: The Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America" 2010
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Great, what a genius the drayman is, causing difficulty to anyone trying to access the train station.
Archive 2008-07-01 FIDO The Dog 2008
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A slow and ponderous man, of the drayman order of human architecture, dressed in a corrugated suit and bibbed apron, apparently a composite of door-mat and rhinoceros-hide.
No Thoroughfare 2007
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No burly drayman or big butts of beer, were wanted for apologies.
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The sufferings she has had to endure, are, she says, beyond compare; the poems which she writes breathe a withering passion, a smouldering despair, an agony of spirit that would melt the soul of a drayman, were he to read them.
Mrs. Perkins's Ball 2006
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When my grandfather was courting my grandmother, he was the town drayman, and was often working with the ferryman in transporting cargo to town businesses, as well as mail items to the postmaster for delivery...
Archive 2005-12-01 Trish Short Lewis 2005
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