drayman
noun
a person who drives a dray.
draymen
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pluralof drayman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
"When kings build," says Schiller, speaking of Kant's commentators, "the draymen have plenty to do."
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam by John Lord
It is not the tyrants that are lacking, but the draymen.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
It is, however, a definite decline in the spiritual character of draymen that now they can thump neither one nor the other.
From Alarms and Discursions by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
