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
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despatches ask us to believe: A Dortmund drayman lost an action in a law court.
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The drayman retorted: "That's no business of the fourth."
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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
It is not the tyrants that are lacking, but the draymen.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Bob Hunt and Dick Nailor, having made up their minds to quit the sea, speedily turned into sturdy draymen, though they kept to their sailor’s rig, and could not easily lay aside their nautical expressions.
From Peter Biddulph The Story of an Australian Settler by William Henry Giles Kingston
That is because the draymen have taken so much water out of it, little cousin.
From Dotty Dimple Out West by Sophie May
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