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[ noun ] a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out
Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)He ran on his plump sticks of legs , freezing now_and_again into the sudden startled attitudes which the camera had caught and held_on the paling photographs , all carefully placed and glued and labeled , resting in the fat plush album in the bottom drawer of the escritoire . (W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)Oh , he was being queer and careful , pawing about in the drawer and holding the bottle like a snake at the length of his arm . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Rummaging through a stack of drawers nearby , you unearthed an antique French chess_set in ivory and sandalwood , which , along with two box_Kodaks , you added to your haul . Related terms container storage_space desk chest_of_drawers buffet chiffonier lock draw |
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[ noun ] the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else
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[ noun ] an artist skilled at drawing
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