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drayful

drayful noun: synonym of drayload.

Noun

drayful (plural drayfuls)

  1. (dated) Synonym of drayload.
    • It all amounts to the same thing, I presume. Now, let me tell you something. Even though you came to me today with a drayful of crooked faro layouts and doctored-up roulette wheels from Penfield's house, it would be practically impossible, at this peculiar juncture of municipal administration, to...1907, Arthur Stringer, Phantom Wires: A Novel, Little, Brown, page 197
    • Later in the day, after he had been seeing drayful after drayful of boxes leave the factory opposite, Bullen, the foreman, came into the office with some estimates, pointing out the figures with a small strip of steel tubing held absently in his fingers.1908, Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting, The Wayfarers, McClure Company, page 262
    Synonyms:
    drayload

Synonyms of drayful

Forms of drayful

pluraldrayfuls

Origin of drayful

From dray + -ful.

Questions about drayful

What does drayful mean?
Drayful means synonym of drayload.
What part of speech is drayful?
Drayful is a noun.
What is the plural of drayful?
The plural of drayful is drayfuls.

Words near drayful in the dictionary

  1. draydl
  2. draydls
  3. drayed
  4. Drayer
  5. Drayers
  6. drayful
  7. drayfuls
  8. drayhorse
  9. draying
  10. drayload
  11. drayloads

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