Crossword clues for drayman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drayman \Dray"man\, n.; pl. Draymen. A man who attends a dray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A man who drives drays. 2 A deliveryman for a brewery.
Wikipedia
A drayman was historically the driver of a dray, a low, flat-bed wagon without sides, pulled generally by horses or mules that were used for transport of all kinds of goods. Now the term is really only used for brewery delivery men, even though routine horse-drawn deliveries are almost entirely extinct. Some breweries do still maintain teams of horses and a dray, but these are used only for special occasions such as festivals or opening new premises. There are some breweries still delivering daily/weekly using horses, Hook Norton in Oxfordshire being one of them.
Usage examples of "drayman".
The drayman, the cartman, the man in the ditch and others whose employment is in the open air are exposed not alone by the character of the work in which they are engaged but also by reason of the fact that six days of the week, those in which they labor, of necessity, their clothing is poor and shabby and their persons are ill kept.
Draymen looked up from their wagons drawn before wide open doors farther down the street but saw nothing to retain their interest as the man and woman strolled away.
Rich furniture and ragged furniture, carts, waggons, and drays, ropes, canvas, and straw, packers, porters, and draymen, white, yellow, and black, occupy the streets from east to west, from north to south, on this day.
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.