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draymen

  • plural
    of drayman.
    drayman
    noun
    a person who drives a dray.

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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

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

Many of the cabmen had the same thing, and so had the draymen.

From From Canal Boy to President Or the Boyhood and Manhood of James A. Garfield by Horatio Alger

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