A coachman; also a DRAG-SNEAK (q.v.).
1832. P. EGAN, Book of Sports, p. 2. The Swell DRAGSMAN of ‘the age!’ Or in plain English, a well-dressed Stage Coachman.
1851. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, IV., 332. This locality is much infested with pickpockets and also with DRAGSMEN, i.e., those persons who steal goods or luggage from carts and coaches.
