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- noun Plural form of
drayman .
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Examples
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It was a scene of constant hubbub: smiths and sailmakers toiling in their shops, captains and mates hollering after jack-tar seamen, stevedores and draymen wrestling the great wooden barrels called hogsheads used to ship the staples of trade—flour or sugar, wine or rum.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The drivers are independent draymen who work out of this city-recognized
Roustabouts For Hire 2008
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It was a scene of constant hubbub: smiths and sailmakers toiling in their shops, captains and mates hollering after jack-tar seamen, stevedores and draymen wrestling the great wooden barrels called hogsheads used to ship the staples of trade—flour or sugar, wine or rum.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The drivers are independent draymen who work out of this city-recognized
Roustabouts For Hire 2008
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Finally, the propeller blades and tips were sheathed in doped fabric, varnished, packed in long wooden cases, and sent away on wagons driven by draymen in tweeds, waistcoats, caps and boots, drawn by Suffolk horses with names like Pegasus.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Finally, the propeller blades and tips were sheathed in doped fabric, varnished, packed in long wooden cases, and sent away on wagons driven by draymen in tweeds, waistcoats, caps and boots, drawn by Suffolk horses with names like Pegasus.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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I feel no compulsion to employ stoop laborers, draymen, longshoremen and sailors in Honduras just so I can have something that looks like a tomato on my plate.
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The old ministers at the brewery come and kneel before him with their books; the draymen, his subjects, fling up their red caps, and shout for him.
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There were two good – tempered burly draymen letting down big butts of beer into
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The holders earned much of their trade providing the bargemen and draymen with lodgings and meals, so they were used to a raucous, constantly changing crowd.
Dragon's Fire McCaffrey, Anne 2006
brtom commented on the word draymen
Grossbooted draymen rolled barrels dullthudding out of Prince's stores and bumped them up on the brewery float.
Joyce, Ulysses, 7
January 2, 2007