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drawer

[drawr for 1, 2; draw-er for 3–6]

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noun

a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.

drawers, (used with a plural verb) an undergarment, with legs, that covers the lower part of the body.

a person or thing that draws.

Finance. a person who draws an order, draft, or bill of exchange.

Metalworking. a person who operates a drawbench.

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Origin:
1300–50, 1580–90 for def. 1, 1560–70 for def. 2; Middle English; see draw, -er¹

Related forms

pre·draw·er, noun

re·draw·er, noun

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Drawer is always a great word to know.

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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.

an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

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Example Sentences

Virtually every playwright has an unfinished or unresolved script tucked in a drawer somewhere.

Most writers don't have the luxury of putting their work in a drawer for a month.

His contribution was to ensure a wonderful idea did not die in a design drawer.

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Virtually every playwright has an unfinished or unresolved script tucked in a drawer somewhere.

Most writers don't have the luxury of putting their work in a drawer for a month.

His contribution was to ensure a wonderful idea did not die in a design drawer.

Tuck a pair of athletic shoes in a drawer in case you have to walk long distances.

She went down to the refrigerator, opened the crisper drawer and urinated in the drawer.

He had no trouble locating the two cuff links but the tie bar had been lost in his sock drawer.

Loose potting soil falls neatly into a dresser drawer below.

Buy in bulk to save and keep fresh in your fruit drawer.

He then walked home, holding his briefcase a little more tightly than usual, and put his money in a drawer.

They get put in the drawer alphabetically with a check off sheet on the front.

Rip out your desk drawer and break it in two, grab the handle as this is your shield.

He took me to his home, where he opened a drawer and pulled out a sheaf of rice paper that had been stapled together.

Drill pilot holes before screwing the drawer pulls into place from the inside.

Duct tape, the new tool of homeland defense, lurks in every toolbox and junk drawer.

They yanked out every drawer in every one of our chests and cupboards, and tossed each in the air.

And don't keep your reflections under lock and key in a dresser drawer.

When this record is completed, the world can share the artifact much more evidently than via a museaum drawer.

It is really not easy to put his longing for music in a little drawer.

With a little creativity, turn an old artwork frame and drawer organizer into a family message center.

The front of the cabinet was divided into three doors of equal width, with a long drawer along the bottom.

TO understand your middle-aged body and its capacity for abuse, picture a rubber band that has been sitting around in a drawer.

The keys to providing clean renewable energy and stabilising the earth's climate won't always be found in a kitchen drawer.

He opened a file cabinet and removed a thin folder from a half-empty drawer.

Recessed storage tray doubles as a junk drawer for charging peripherals.

One drawer can wash the crystal, while the other tackles dirty pots.

Being the sharpest knife in the drawer is not required.

Happy the ordeal was over, the woman quickly put the box back into the drawer and slid it shut.

Think of these as a speed dial, with your entire collection of app icons in a sliding drawer.

Keep one in your desk drawer and those hooligans from accounting will never even look at your parking space again.

And after she had emptied out all the other artifacts, there remained in the bottom left drawer a hammer and wrench.

Let's say that retrieving a penny from that same drawer and handing it to the customer takes five seconds.

Then put the letter in a drawer and let it get cold, and read it again a few days, weeks or months later.

They will utilize every tool in their drawer over whatever they deem to be vital to their national interest.

Measure to find the center of the drawer face, and put the center of the jig on that.

Stash one of these compact drivers in a kitchen drawer and you'll always have the perfect tool at hand.

She said she had put the customer's money in the drawer.

My father had a loaded pistol in the drawer of his bedside table.

Suppose a toddler somehow got into a drawer and got a box of matches.

Using a red-tinted flashlight, he opens one up, and pulls out a plastic drawer.

Or three, his mother knew what she was doing when she put her slice of cake in the desk drawer.

Saves wear and tear on the drawer pulls and all that.

The little carrying drawer popped out and headed, along with the battery, under the sofa.

She pushed the coupons back in among the candles and shut the drawer.

She managed to find them using a department key to the drawer where they were hidden.

She will even open my dresser drawer if it is left open an inch to dig around.

Even an old dresser drawer covered with burlap or plastic would work.

The hardest part was rummaging through the junk drawer.

Most dinner candles are purchased without much thought and live in a drawer until they're ready to be used.

But our lantern-jaw crime-fighter would have tossed today's cellular phones into a desk drawer and stuck with his wrist gizmo.

Opening a drawer in my childhood kitchen meant finding birthday cards sticky from a leaking pen, a recipe.

Keep a picture from your vacation in your wallet or taped to the inside of a desk drawer.

He leans slightly back in his chair, one foot propped on the pulled-out bottom drawer of his desk, hands aloft.

Authorities found it in the drawer of a worker at the organization.

If you want to see if someone's been in your room, you can leave a voice-activated tape recorder in a drawer slightly cracked.

There's even a virtual drawer that users can pull up to store images and notes.

Levin whips out a set of keys, unlocks his desk, and rummages through a drawer.

The photos of the control group were kept in a locked drawer.

The broadcast companies naturally want to keep it in their top drawer.

We put the watch in a coma by leaving it in a drawer for six days.

The shocks aren't hanging from anywhere, they're laying in a drawer and they don't have any influence on it.

But it's so different from seeing in a stack in a flat drawer.

He zipped through them so quickly, she learned to hide a few in a drawer so he'd have something to work on the following day.

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World English Dictionary

drawer (ˈdrɔːə)

—n
1.	a person or thing that draws, esp a draughtsman
2.	See draw a person who draws a cheque
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

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

drawer

1570s, a box that can be "drawn" out of a cabinet; see draw.

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

drawer

see top drawer.