单词 | drayman |
释义 | draymann. 1. A man who drives a dray (in England, usually a brewer's dray). ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > driver or operator of vehicle > [noun] > driver of cart > of specific type of cart drayman1581 courtier1630 truck-man1787 wherry-driver?1881 1581 Fleetwood in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 285 They brought unto me..vi tall fellowes that were draymen unto bruers. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. ii. 245 A dray-man, a porter, a very Cammell. View more context for this quotation 1710 London Gaz. No. 4649/4 A Drayman at Mr. Truman's and Mr. Bacon's, Brewers in Spittlefields. 1844 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit liii. 609 Two..burly draymen letting down big butts of beer into a cellar. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fisher > [noun] > using net > using drag-net drayman1584 draggerman1630 drag-man1678 1584 Order Sept. in R. Griffiths Ess. Jurisdict. Thames (1746) 63 No Fishermen, Garthmen, Petermen, Draymen, or Trinkermen, shall..set up any Wears, Engines [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1581 |
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