deep-draw

American  

[deep-draw] / ˈdipˈdrɔ /

verb (used with object)

Metalworking.

deep-drew, deep-drawn, deep-drawing

1. to form (tubing, containers, etc.) by pulling strip or sheet metal between suitably formed and spaced dies.

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Etymology

Origin of deep-draw

First recorded in 1920–25

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Example Sentences

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deep-drawing deep-drawn

To Tenedos they come, And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge Their warlike fraughtage.

From Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker

To Tenedos they come, And the deep-drawing barks do there disgorge Their war-like fraughtage.

From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare

Then he heaved a deep-drawn sigh of relief.

From No Surrender by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

The graybeard slowly shook his head, and the deep-drawn sigh that issued from his lips seemed to Gilbert Oglander to betoken a whole world of past troubles and present gratitude.

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton

The much-to-be-pitied victim of Caldero's cold atheism and contempt of mankind still sat in the same position, staring gloomily before him, without uttering a syllable, but now and then heaving a deep-drawn sigh.

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. II (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various

Coughs—the dog's hollow, deep-drawn brand—are a sore trial to the hearer.

From A Manual of Toy Dogs How to breed, rear, and feed them by Mrs. Leslie Williams

What deep-drawn exclamations, what shouts of applause had rung through that solitude, what bursts of joy and grief had echoed from those silent benches!

From Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) by John Lloyd Stephens

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