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drayman

[ drey-muhn ]

noun

, plural dray·men.
  1. a person who drives a dray.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of drayman1

First recorded in 1575–85; dray + man

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Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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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