drayful

English

Etymology

From dray +‎ -ful.

Noun

drayful (plural drayfuls)

1. (dated) Synonym of drayload.

   Coordinate terms: carful, cartful, trailerful, truckful, (broadly synonymous) wagonful

   • 1907, Arthur Stringer, Phantom Wires: A Novel‎^[1], Little, Brown, page 197:

     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!

   • 1908, Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting, The Wayfarers‎^[2], McClure Company, page 262:

     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.

   • 1911, “House-cleaning out of fashion”, in The Medical Brief‎^[3], volume 39, number 11, page 704:

     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.