drayman
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draymen
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To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer as a Methodist minister.
From Time Magazine Archive
Would it be right, asked he, to require the drayman to make the trip?
From Time Magazine Archive
At the age of 19, Vaselli enlisted in the army for one single purpose: to save enough money to buy eight mules and a partnership with a go-ahead drayman.
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The drayman retorted: "That's no business of the fourth."
From Time Magazine Archive
A Wells-Fargo drayman tried to deliver it to the Wrightwood address but could not locate anyone named Williams or Gordon.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
Below the ranks of skilled craftsmen, were the carters, draymen, and laborers who kept urban commerce moving by land, as throngs of sailors did by sea.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
It may explain why office clerks, shoppers, draymen and school children seem to be increasingly satisfied with a sandwich-and-milkshake lunch at the widespreading U. S. "sandwich bars."
From Time Magazine Archive
Whether or no the draymen of Barclay and Perkins have degenerated, the Commune which includes Szekeres has not degenerated.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
My colliers, draymen, watermen, the carpenters who build my ships and the mariners who sail them, the ablest of these my necessary helpers sling their hammocks in your fleet.
From The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson
Warehouse-men, porters and draymen crowded the tops of the cotton bales and oil barrels on both sides of the track as the train passed through.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons
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