ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Drayful

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Drayful is a noun meaning (dated) Synonym of drayload.

Meaning

(dated) Synonym of drayload.

Example Sentences

The corners and crannies of too many houses are stuffed with such accumulations. Old newspapers and magazines are more easily gotten rid of a few at a time than by the drayful.
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.
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 take in my men and carry out a raid over Captain Kuttrell's head!

Word Forms

Synonyms for drayful

Depending on context, synonyms include drayload.

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