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Draymen

Drayman \Dray"man\, n.; pl. Draymen. A man who attends a dray.

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draymen

n. (plural of drayman English)

Usage examples of "draymen".

Farley, still in his brown-colored oilskins, fared much better, so she made sure he helped the draymen carry the heaviest pieces, including the upright piano that she hoped would leave him with a hernia the size of a turnip.

O'Molloy he came forth slowly into Mary's abbey where draymen were loading floats with sacks of carob and palmnut meal, O'Connor, Wexford.

Shop keepers rattled open doors, jangling tiny brass bells against the glass, while clerks arranged window displays to their liking and called greetings to the draymen or dickered over prices and freight charges with delivery men.

Kaederman's cart plunged into Whitechapel Road, careering past screaming women on the pavement and cursing draymen who swung violently wide to avoid collision.

After we arrived and had breakfast I had to meet the draymen here and see that our things were unloaded and get beds set up.

On the brewery float bumped dullthudding barrels rolled by grossbooted draymen out of Prince's stores.