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drayman

American  
[drey-muhn] / ˈdreɪ mən /

noun

draymen plural
  1. a person who drives a dray.


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noun

Etymology

Origin of drayman

First recorded in 1575–85; dray + man

Example Sentences

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The tragedies of Drayman Henschel and of Rose Bernd, at all events, stand in no need of the label of any decade.

From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II by Hauptmann, Gerhart

The action of Rose Bernd opens on a bright Sunday morning in May, that of Drayman Henschel during a bleak February dawn.

From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Hauptmann, Gerhart

The last play in this volume, The Rats, appeared in 1911, thirteen years after Drayman Henschel, nine years after Rose Bernd.

From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II by Hauptmann, Gerhart

You'll forgive me but I have some business with Drayman Henschel.

From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II by Hauptmann, Gerhart

From his noblest successes, The Weavers, Drayman Henschel, Michael Kramer, the artifice of complication is wholly absent.

From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Hauptmann, Gerhart

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