Meanings
- pluralplural of drayful.
[…] drayfuls from the fields were stored in the barn. Wood from the bush was brought home in sledges, then sawn into huge logs to be burned in the open fireplace […]
1965, Jim Henderson, Open Country: People and Places Out of Town, Wellington, New Zealand: A.H. & A.W. Reed, →ISBN, page 1462 more examples
The men dug a lot of dirt off of a trap-door over a hole in the ground, and Agab watched them unload two or three drayfuls of furniture and provisions from the ship and carry them down into the hole.
1903, James Winfield Scott, Jack Hardin's Rendering of the Arabian Nights: Being a New Translation in Up-to-date English: with Wise Comments, Explanations, &c., by this Eminent Linguist, Herbert B. Turner & Company, page 165Sometimes if the other bench was over-run, they used to put things together like I put the jackets, they've asked me to help out and I've done my best, and if I couldn't earn my money they made it up. They always made stock because it used to come over there in big drayfuls.
2015, Gillian Holman, quoting Mrs N, Made in East Anglia: A History of the Region's Textile and Menswear Industries (Pasold Resources in Textile History), volume 1, Pasold Research Fund, page 187
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