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drawer

[ drawr draw-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn draw out in order to gain access to it.
drawers, (used with a plural verb) an undergarment, with legs, that covers the lower part of the body.
a person or thing that draws.
Finance. a person who draws an order, draft, or bill of exchange.
Metalworking. a person who operates a drawbench.
a tapster.

drawer

/ ˈdrɔːə /

Origin of drawer¹

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

I get the bottle while he opens a desk drawer containing two glasses.

And who else would let them gather dust in some drawer for nearly 50 years?

But then I had to go back to earning real money and went to work for ‬Businessweek‪ and put the book in a drawer for a long time.

On the day when he pulled open the drawer to show me the gun, I wonder, what I was thinking?

The gun Don used, he kept in the drawer of his writing table at the window, where he always worked.

"I have a letter somewhere," looking in the machine drawer and finding the letter in the bottom of the workbasket.

The letter was right there at hand in the drawer of the little table upon which Edna had just placed her coffee cup.

Mademoiselle smoothed the letter out, restored it to the envelope, and replaced it in the table drawer.

If the holder has been free from wrong in presenting the check, the bank cannot look to him, but to the drawer for repayment.

She had opened the drawer of her deskthe top right-hand drawerand was fumbling in it.

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