drayman

[ drey-muhn ]

noun

, plural dray·men.

1. a person who drives a dray.

Word History and Origins

Origin of drayman¹

First recorded in 1575–85; dray + man

Example Sentences

And the gruff voice of the drayman, growing impatient in the antechamber: "Come, come, make haste."

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I had made every move with caution; I had never employed our real names, not even with the drayman.

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Our fashionable coat is an amphibium between barn-sack and drayman's doublet.

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An injured drayman was brought in dead drunk, and underwent amputation of the legs without any signs of feeling pain.

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The drayman as soon as he found the horse gone, went in pursuit and called upon the people in the streets to stop his horse.

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