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

/ ˈdrɔːə /

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

Other Word Forms

• predrawer noun
• redrawer noun

Word 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

Idioms and Phrases

see top drawer.

Example Sentences

Scraps of clothing would be saved in drawers in case relatives could identify them.

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He inhales the bread and continues to search for his next snack in the weirdest of places, including between the couch cushions and inside the old furniture drawers.

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Mrs. Clarke began folding the basket of cloth diapers and comically miniature baby clothes she had brought to fill the dresser drawers.

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She had no clear memory of the day; it was all in bits and pieces, like many different pockets emptied carelessly into the same drawer.

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In the darkness of her cozy bedchamber, with her moss-green bedspread and the drawer pulls in the shape of mushrooms, she could almost pretend she was in the forest already.

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