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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. drawers, (used with a plural verb) 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. archaic.
    a person who draws beer, etc, in a bar
  5. ɔː a boxlike container in a chest, table, etc, made for sliding in and out
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·İ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of drawer1

1300–50, 1580–90 drawer fordef 1, 1560–70 drawer fordef 2; Middle English; draw, -er 1
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Idioms and Phrases

see top drawer .
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Example Sentences

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Practically overnight, I had to adjust to how my new glasses slid down my nose and the way the elastics tethered to my braces snapped like rubber bands in a junk drawer.

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Wilband also told Wheeler to burn drugs bags that were in her bedside drawer so they could not be found by police.

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Moments later, a frantic housekeeper rifles through the kitchen drawers, then returns to raise a heavy marble rolling pin over the disheveled and bloodied figure, who is by all appearances pleading for her life.

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A forensic examination found blood on the carpet, wall and chest of drawers in Majerkiewicz's bedroom and evidence of a clean-up.

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As for Fabian, he does not strike me as the sharpest knife in the drawer.

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