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单词 drayman
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draymann.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dray n.1, man n.1; dray-net n., man n.1
Etymology: In sense 1 < dray n.1 + man n.1 In sense 2 < dray (in dray-net n.) + man n.1; compare drag-man n. at drag n. Compounds 1, draggerman n. at dragger n. Compounds.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdrayman.
1. A man who drives a dray (in England, usually a brewer's dray).
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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.
2. A fisherman who uses a dragnet; cf. dray-net n. and draggerman. Obsolete.
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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).
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