Drawer vs Drawed - What's the difference?
drawer | drawed |
An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
(non-gloss definition); one who draws.
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An artist who primarily makes drawings.
(banking) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note.
A barman; a man who draws the beer from the taps.
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Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.(w)
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, chapter=4, title= (dialectal) (draw)
* {{quote-book, year=1839, author=Charles Dickens, title=Nicholas Nickleby, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He was the cruellest, wickedest, out-and-outerest old flint that ever drawed breath.' }}
* {{quote-book, year=1882, author=Louisa M. Alcott, title=Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I jest bounced intew the kitchen, chucked my hat intew one corner, my coat intew 'nother, kicked the cat, cussed the fire, drawed up a chair, and set scaoulin' like sixty, bein' tew mad fer talkin'. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1915, author=Zane Grey, title=The Lone Star Ranger, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He was watchin' of you close, he said, an' just couldn't follow your hand when you drawed . }}
As a noun drawer
is an open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.As a verb drawed is
past tense of draw.drawer
English
(wikipedia drawer)Noun
(en noun)Federal Court Finds Texas Voting Maps Discriminatory”, NYTimes.com :
- 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.
- 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.
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=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.}}
Derived terms
* chest of drawers * not the sharpest knife in the drawer * top drawerSee also
* drawersAnagrams
* * * * English heteronymsdrawed
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