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drawer

[drawr, draw-er]

noun

  1. a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn draw out in order to gain access to it.

  2. (used with a plural verb)drawers, an undergarment, with legs, that covers the lower part of the body.

  3. a person or thing that draws.

  4. Finance.a person who draws an order, draft, or bill of exchange.

  5. Metalworking.a person who operates a drawbench.

  6. a tapster.



drawer

/ ˈɔːə /

noun

  1. a person or thing that draws, esp a draughtsman

  2. a person who draws a cheque See draw

  3. a person who draws up a commercial paper

  4. archaica person who draws beer, etc, in a bar

  5. a boxlike container in a chest, table, etc, made for sliding in and out

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • predrawer noun
  • redrawer noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of drawer1

1300–50, 1580–90 drawer for def. 1, 1560–70 drawer for def. 2; Middle English; draw, -er 1
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“Can you imagine leaving your masterpiece locked up in a drawer for almost 40 years?”

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Mr Soliman allegedly told officials he left his iPhone hidden in a desk drawer with messages to his family, wife and five children.

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Inside there are three mattresses, part of a chest of drawers, and a mirror which reflects sunlight across the floor in front of Siwar, her mother Najwa and her grandmother, Reem.

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Things like shoplifting, skipping traffic by impersonating law enforcement and shooting out one’s bottom dentures like a cash-register drawer.

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Her kitchen had slate stone tile and an antique wooden table in the middle with drawers all around it.

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