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Definition of Drayman
1. n. A man who attends a dray.
Definition of Drayman
1. Noun. (obsolete) A man who drives drays. ¹
2. Noun. A deliveryman for a brewery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Drayman
1. one who drives a dray [n DRAYMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drayman
Literary usage of Drayman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1912)
"... where such a hackman or drayman has a contract with a patron of the railroad
company to transport either himself or his goods to or from its depot. ..."
2. The American Reports: Containing All Decisions of General Interest Decided by Isaac Grant Thompson, Irving Browne (1881)
"BLECKLEY, J. The contract was somewhat peculiar, but its object evidently was to
prevent any combination between the clerk and the drayman, to keep down ..."
3. The Continental Drama of To-day: Outlines for Its Study, Suggestions by Barrett Harper Clark (1914)
"drayman HENSCHEL A play in five acts. Originally published 1898. ... drayman
Henschel " has little in common with the two preceding plays; ..."
4. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1907)
"Dated this day of- Is a drayman parrying on business at and, WHEREAS, the above
bounden -IV"' of delivering"same to consignees or others. the course of his ..."
5. The Science of Railways by Marshall Monroe Kirkman (1903)
"We, the undersigned, do hereby authorize Agent RAILWAY Co., to deliver to _
drayman, any and all freight that may arrive at Station consigned to m; ..."
6. The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and by Charles Knight (1859)
"In the city, close by The drayman. the Monument, the great thoroughfare to London
Bridge is choked by a mob of butchers with marrowbones and cleavers, ..."
7. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"But side by side with these, though in far smaller proportion, were seen officers
like Ewer, who had been a serving-man, like Okey, who had been a drayman, ..."
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