What does drayful mean?
Drayful means (dated) Synonym of drayload..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(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 take in my men and carry out a raid over Captain Kuttrell's head!
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.
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.
Use drayful when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Drayful means (dated) Synonym of drayload..
Common synonyms include drayload.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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!
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