Drawer vs Rifle - What's the difference?

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 rifle is

drawer

English

(wikipedia drawer)

Noun

(en noun)

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.

* 2012 August 28, Manny Fernandez, “ 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.

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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.

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.

Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.^(w)

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=4, title= 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 drawer

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rifle

English

(wikipedia rifle)

Noun

(en noun)

A long firearm firing a single projectile, usually with a rifled barrel to improve accuracy.

* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=

, title=The Dust of Conflict , chapter=7 citation , passage=Still, a dozen men with rifles , and cartridges to match, stayed behind when they filed through a white aldea lying silent amid the cane, and the Sin Verguenza swung into slightly quicker stride.}}

A strip of wood covered with emery or a similar material, used for sharpening scythes.

Derived terms

* automatic rifle * rifled slug * rifling

Verb

(rifl)

to search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder.

To scan many items (especially papers) in a set, quickly. (See also riffle^{[http://verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html]})

She made a mess when she rifled through the stack of papers, looking for the title document.

To add a spiral to the interior of a gun bore to make a fired bullet spin in flight to improve range and accuracy.

To strike something with great power.

* {{quote-news

, year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Marc Vesty , title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Davies's cross was headed away from danger by Robert Huth, only for Baird to take the ball in his stride and rifle his right-footed effort towards the corner from the edge of the box.}}

To commit robbery.

(Bishop Hall)

To strip of goods; to rob; to pillage.

* Shakespeare

Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye: / If not, we'll make you sit and rifle you.

To seize and bear away by force; to snatch away; to carry off.

* Alexander Pope

Time shall rifle every youthful grace.

To raffle.

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