drawer
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English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (box)
- (person)
Etymology 1
[edit]From draw (“to move by pulling”) + -er; compare French tiroir. Attested from the 16th century.[1]
Noun
[edit]drawer (plural drawers)
- An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
- 2008, Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds, Bloomsbury (2018), page 144:
- He knelt down and began shoving the drawer into the slot; the rail was misaligned so he banged it with the heel of his hand. It stuck.
- (graphical user interface) A side panel containing supplementary content.
- Attributive form of drawers.
- 1918, The Corset and Underwear Review, volume 12, page 74:
- The step-ins are of two sorts; the knicker combination with open bloomer and chemise top; and circular drawer style, with chemise top and gussets at back and front that give extra width at the bottom.
- 1922, The Underwear & Hosiery Review, volume 5, page 67, column 2:
- Customers in the underwear department at MacDougal-Southwick’s, on the other hand, have evinced quite an interest in the French drawer style, with binding in contrasting color and the separate vests also bound in the contrasting color.
- 1930 April 26, directed by Amos Parrish, “What’s In Fashion: Underwear For Men”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume XLVI, number 305, Pittsburgh, Pa., page ten, column 4:
- Today men of every age are turning to the athletic pull-over shirt and drawer type of underwear.
- 1935 May 4, “Hand-Picked Bargains–from a Store full of them!”, in Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y., page 3, column 3:
- Men’s Balbriggan Shirts and Drawers / 50c ea. / For the man who wants the shirt-and-drawer type of underwear but, naturally, wants lightweight now.
- 1988, Nell DuVall, Domestic Technology: A Chronology of Developments, Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 366:
- Leloir described les calecons, drawer-type undergarment worn by French ladies (wc).
- 2023, Gian Singh Sandhu, Who Are the Sikhs?: An Exploration of the Beliefs, Practices, & Traditions of the Sikh People, Bloomington, Ind.: Archway Publishing, →ISBN:
- The Sikh code of conduct does not restrict how Sikhs dress, except that they must wear kashera (drawer-type, cotton tie-able underwear) and a turban.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]open-topped box in a cabinet used for storing
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Etymology 2
[edit]Middle English drawer, from draw + -er (agent noun suffix). Attested from the 14th century.[2]
Noun
[edit]drawer (plural drawers)
- Agent noun of draw; one who draws.
- 2012 August 28, Manny Fernandez, “Federal Court Finds Texas Voting Maps Discriminatory”, in NYTimes.com[1]:
- Lawyers for Mr. Abbott argued that the maps were drawn to help Republicans maintain power but not to discriminate, and that drawers did not know where district offices were located.
- 2014 January 25, Gordon Rayner, “Wanted: discreet drawer of royal bath: Buckingham Palace is seeking a housekeeping assistant for H team – just don't volunteer to change the light bulbs [online version: Wanted: an enthusiastic and proactive individual to run the Queen’s bath, 24 January 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph[2], page 9:
- Wanted: discreet drawer of royal bath [title] ... [T]he successful applicant for the role of "housekeeping assistant" mus also be prepared for rather less conventional tasks; such as running the Queen's bath and cleaning her priceless antiques.
- An artist who primarily makes drawings.
- (banking) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note.
- 1913, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 6526, page 276:
- There is no doubt that the stipulation of nonguarantee of an acceptance inserted in a bill of exchange by the drawer has the effect of excluding the liability of guarantee for the indorsers as well as for the drawer.
- A barman; a person who draws the beer from the taps.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:
- When the good lieutenant applied himself to the door, he applied himself likewise to the bell; and the drawer immediately attending, he dispatched him for a file of musqueteers and a surgeon.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- He came down to the Pied Horse Inn, where I was a drawer, at Newmarket, twice.
- Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.
- 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:
- A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.
- (mining, historical) A wagoner or person who pushes underground tubs.
Synonyms
[edit]- draughtsman (definition 2)
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]one who draws something
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artist who primarily makes drawings
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one who writes a bank draft, check/cheque or promissory note
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a barman
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ drawer, n.2, Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- ^ drawer, n.1 Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
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