drayman
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
The drayman retorted: "That's no business of the fourth."
From Time Magazine Archive
Would it be right, asked he, to require the drayman to make the trip?
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
We paid cargadors four times, draymen three times, more than we have ever done in any other part of Mexico.
From In Indian Mexico (1908) by Starr, Frederick
They said the draymen had been called up, and they were doing duty in their place.
From A Hero of Li?ge by Strang, Herbert
No tough arm bends the spinning yew, And jolly draymen ride, in lieu Of Death, upon the shaft!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
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