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词汇 drayman
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Definition of drayman in English:

drayman

nounPlural draymenˈdreɪmənˈdreɪmən
  • A person who delivers beer for a brewery.

    (啤酒厂的)送酒工

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There are the marble lists on shop stairwells, in stations, drapers and haberdashers, the names of tweenies and skivvies and draymen, and then the later additions from the second world war, the same names back again.
    • This includes the specialised categories of carters, draymen, drivers, hackmen, teamsters and expressmen.
    • Pioneering East Lancashire film-makers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon filmed everyday people including schoolchildren, mill workers and brewery draymen to show at local events.
    • On the left stands Tom Hodgson, a former drayman for Aaron King's brewery in Keighley.
    • Rumours had it that a drayman delivering beer with his horse and cart was decapitated on his way through the passage.
    • Next to him, a drayman is whispering soft sentences of love to a servant-maid, round whose neck is one of his arms; in the other hand a pot of porter.
    • Set to work as a drayman for a brewery, he said: ‘I always wanted to be in the Army but now I'm looking forward to civilian life.’
    • Peter will play Eric, a brewery drayman who arranges a date with lovelorn barmaid Shelley, which turns into a comic disaster.
    • From December 1 the phones don't stop ringing, the draymen work three times as hard and everyone's exhausted by December 24.
    • While his accomplices forged orders from local merchants, he picked up goods, paid-off draymen and fenced the merchandise in the city's black market.
    • Earlier this year he stirred up Coronation Street, playing a cameo role as a bungling drayman who made a play for barmaid Shelley Unwin.
    • He was raised by his mother Lorraine, a social services worker, and father David, a domineering man who works as a brewer's drayman.
    • His melodies were repeated on street organs and whistled by draymen; yet no other opera composer has written so often about politics and power, the evils of tyranny, and fatal conspiracies.
    • See the Black Sheep draymen sharing a ribald joke as they lower a barrel down the drop, there it is.
    • It was the brewery's draymen who are the heroes in question.
    • Pubs that at 7am usually have only draymen for visitors, had queues of England fans outside them, waiting for their team's Group F decider with Nigeria.
    • A drayman for 34 years, Mr Osborne said: ‘Everybody really looked forward to the reunion lunch.’
    • He was introduced to Tom and Royal, two of the four shire horses by draymen Mike Berry and Adrian Noakes and toured the brewery.
    • Jamie, 40, a drayman, and Liz, 35, a special needs teacher, were so concerned that Aimee might not survive, they brought forward their wedding so she could have her father's name.
    • The jury has also heard that during post-mortem examinations the brewery drayman was found to have a blood alcohol level more than four times the limit for driving.

Definition of drayman in US English:

drayman

nounˈdreɪmənˈdrāmən
  • A person who delivers beer for a brewery.

    (啤酒厂的)送酒工

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There are the marble lists on shop stairwells, in stations, drapers and haberdashers, the names of tweenies and skivvies and draymen, and then the later additions from the second world war, the same names back again.
    • Set to work as a drayman for a brewery, he said: ‘I always wanted to be in the Army but now I'm looking forward to civilian life.’
    • Rumours had it that a drayman delivering beer with his horse and cart was decapitated on his way through the passage.
    • See the Black Sheep draymen sharing a ribald joke as they lower a barrel down the drop, there it is.
    • His melodies were repeated on street organs and whistled by draymen; yet no other opera composer has written so often about politics and power, the evils of tyranny, and fatal conspiracies.
    • Jamie, 40, a drayman, and Liz, 35, a special needs teacher, were so concerned that Aimee might not survive, they brought forward their wedding so she could have her father's name.
    • From December 1 the phones don't stop ringing, the draymen work three times as hard and everyone's exhausted by December 24.
    • It was the brewery's draymen who are the heroes in question.
    • This includes the specialised categories of carters, draymen, drivers, hackmen, teamsters and expressmen.
    • The jury has also heard that during post-mortem examinations the brewery drayman was found to have a blood alcohol level more than four times the limit for driving.
    • Peter will play Eric, a brewery drayman who arranges a date with lovelorn barmaid Shelley, which turns into a comic disaster.
    • Next to him, a drayman is whispering soft sentences of love to a servant-maid, round whose neck is one of his arms; in the other hand a pot of porter.
    • Pubs that at 7am usually have only draymen for visitors, had queues of England fans outside them, waiting for their team's Group F decider with Nigeria.
    • While his accomplices forged orders from local merchants, he picked up goods, paid-off draymen and fenced the merchandise in the city's black market.
    • A drayman for 34 years, Mr Osborne said: ‘Everybody really looked forward to the reunion lunch.’
    • He was introduced to Tom and Royal, two of the four shire horses by draymen Mike Berry and Adrian Noakes and toured the brewery.
    • Pioneering East Lancashire film-makers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon filmed everyday people including schoolchildren, mill workers and brewery draymen to show at local events.
    • He was raised by his mother Lorraine, a social services worker, and father David, a domineering man who works as a brewer's drayman.
    • On the left stands Tom Hodgson, a former drayman for Aaron King's brewery in Keighley.
    • Earlier this year he stirred up Coronation Street, playing a cameo role as a bungling drayman who made a play for barmaid Shelley Unwin.
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