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drayman

[ drey-muhn ]

/ ˈdreɪ mən /

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noun, plural dray·men.

a person who drives a dray.

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Origin of drayman

First recorded in 1575–85; dray + man

Words nearby drayman

draw weight, dray, drayage, dray horse, draying, drayman, Drayton, drch., D.R.E., dread, dreadful

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How to use drayman in a sentence

And the gruff voice of the drayman, growing impatient in the antechamber: "Come, come, make haste."
The Nabob|Alphonse Daudet
I had made every move with caution; I had never employed our real names, not even with the drayman.
The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2|Various
Our fashionable coat is an amphibium between barn-sack and drayman's doublet.
Past and Present|Thomas Carlyle
An injured drayman was brought in dead drunk, and underwent amputation of the legs without any signs of feeling pain.
Rustic Sounds|Francis Darwin

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.
Charles' Journey to France, and Other Tales|Anna Laetitia Barbauld