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

/ ˈdrɔːə /

noun

1. a person or thing that draws, esp a draughtsman
2. See draw
   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. drɔː a boxlike container in a chest, table, etc, made for sliding in and out

Other Words From

• pre·drawer noun
• re·drawer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of drawer¹

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

Idioms and Phrases

see top drawer .

Example Sentences

If you’re like my family, you have a drawer full of masks, but they always seem to be dirty.

From Outside Online

Sometimes it’s as simple as opening a drawer to climb up a desk, other times, puzzles involve multiple steps, such as manipulating an elevator to reach an unseen floor, distracting enemies, or luring foes into traps.

From Washington Post

The other 15 or so tablespoons in the family’s flatware drawer are plain.

From Washington Post

Unlike other articles of clothing, you can’t simply throw a belt in the dirty clothes at the end of the day—and getting them to stay rolled up in a drawer when not in use is nearly impossible.

From Popular-Science

Look for treasures in roll-top desks, junk drawers, frames and freezers, as well as taped to toilet lids.

From Washington Post

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg