drayfuls

English

Noun

drayfuls

1. plural of drayful.
   • 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^[1], Herbert B. Turner & Company, page 165:

     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.

   • 1965, Jim Henderson, Open Country: People and Places Out of Town, Wellington, New Zealand: A.H. & A.W. Reed, →ISBN, page 146:

     […] 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 […]

   • 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)‎^[2], volume 1, Pasold Research Fund, page 187:

     Sometimes 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.