fine-draw

American  

[fahyn-draw] / ˈfaɪnˈdrɔ /

verb (used with object)

fine-drew, fine-drawn, fine-drawing

1. Sewing. to sew together so finely that the joining is not noticeable.

2. to draw out to extreme fineness, tenuity, or subtlety.

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fine-draw British  

verb

1. to sew together so finely that the join is scarcely noticeable

2. to carry out the last drawing-out operation on (wire, tube, etc) to reduce its diameter

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Other Word Forms

• fine-drawer noun

Etymology

Origin of fine-draw

First recorded in 1725–35

Example Sentences

Set aside, I say, all those attributes, which I am allowed to possess, and I am worth six men in any campaign; for that one quality of healing as I do—rip me up; punch me through, tear me to tatters with bomb-shells, and nature has me whole again, while your tailor would fine-draw an old-coat.

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To the prose:—The first in the volume is "the Sisters," a pathetic tale of about thirty pages, which a little of the fashionable affectation of some literary coxcombs might fine-draw over a brace of small octavos.

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Rejoined the old woman, "O my daughter, be not chagrined; for I have a son, a fine-drawer, and he, by thy life, shall fine-draw the holes and restore the turband-cloth as it was."

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The crone answered, "To-morrow, Inshallah—an it please Allah the Most High—I will bring him to thee, at the time of thy husband's going forth from thee, and he shall fine-draw it and depart forthwith."

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