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draw-
the verb-stem in combination: a. used attrib. = drawing-, used for, in, or by drawing: as draw-hook, draw-ladder, draw-lid, draw-mule, draw-nail, draw-pull, draw-stroke, draw-window. draw-arch, a movable arch in a bridge; a drawbridge arch; draw-beam, a windlass; † draw-bed, an extensible bed, also called drawing-bed; draw-bench, a machine in which wire or strips of metal are reduced in thickness or brought to gauge by drawing through gauged apertures, also called drawing-bench; draw-board, a board adapted to be drawn up; draw-bolt, a coupling-pin of a railway wagon; draw-bore, a pin-hole through a tenon, so bored that the pin shall draw the parts together; hence draw-bore v.; draw-box, † (a) a drawer (obs.); (b) = drawing-frame (drawing vbl. n. 6 a); drawcard = drawing card (see drawing ppl. a. 4); draw-cord = draw-string; † draw-dike, a ditch from which water can be drawn off; draw-dock, a creek or inlet in the bank of a navigable river into which boats or barges can be run to land cargoes, or lie in the mud at low water; draw-farm, a farm whence supplies are drawn; draw-frame = drawing-frame (see drawing vbl. n. 6 a); draw-gear, (a) harness for draught animals (Phillips, 1706); (b) the apparatus by which railway carriages and trucks are connected together in a train; draw-head, (a) the head of a draw-bar in a railway-carriage; (b) part of a drawing-frame, in which the slivers are lengthened and twisted; draw-hoe (see hoe n.2 1 b); draw-horse, a bench or support on which a drawing-knife is used; draw-kiln, a lime-kiln so constructed that the burned lime is drawn at the bottom; draw-knot, a simple knot, undone by drawing the ends of the string; draw leaf, a leaf of a draw-table; so draw-leaf table = draw-table; draw-ling (see quot.); draw-link, a link connecting railway carriages or trucks; draw-loom, the loom used in figure-weaving, in which the strings through which the warps are passed were pulled by a draw-boy; draw-nail (see quot. 1960); draw-pin, a draw-bore pin; draw-pipe, a pipe for drawing water from a cistern or boiler; draw-poker, a game of cards, also called poker q.v.; draw-rod, a rod connecting the draw-bars of railway trucks; draw-shave, a drawing-knife for shaving spokes, etc.; draw-sheet, (a) a folded sheet placed under a patient so that it can be withdrawn without the disturbance of making the whole bed; ; (b) Printing (see quot. 1928); draw-sluice, a sluice opened by being drawn up a groove; draw-spring, the spring between a draw-bar and the truck or carriage; draw-string, a string slipped through the mouth of a bag, the neck or waist of a garment, etc., so as to tighten it by drawing the ends; also attrib.; draw-tab, a theatre curtain which can be pulled across the front of the stage; draw-table, an extending table, a table with additional pieces which can be drawn out to extend the length; draw-tap, a tap for emptying a pipe, cistern, etc.; draw-taper = delivery 5 b; draw-tongs, a wire-drawer's tool; draw-top (table), see quot. 1904; draw-tube, the compound tube, one part sliding within the other, which carries the object-glass and eye-piece of a microscope. Also draw-bar, -boy, -bridge, etc.
1807Sir R. C. Hoare Tour Irel. 197 A *draw-arch..of which all the machinery is worked under the floor of the bridge.
1611Cotgr., Ergate, A Windlasse, Windbeame, or *Draw-beame.
1663Inv. Ld. J. Gordon's Furniture, In the chamber next adjacent..ane stand bed with a *draw bed.
1859Dickens in All Year Round 2 July 239 The fillets, or ribands of gold..are taken to a machine called a *draw-bench where their thickness is perfectly equalised from end to end. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 298/1. Draw-bench.
1791R. Mylne Rep. Thames & Isis 56 The Stone fixed weir should have a gauge-weir with *Draw-boards constructed on it.
1812–16J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 120 *Draw-bore pins are used in forcing a tenoned piece into its proper place in the mortise. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 232 The Draw-bore Pin, or Hook-pin [used] for draw-boring.
1662Greenhalgh in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 13 In the wall..many *draw boxes, with rings at them like those in a Grocer's Shop. 1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., Draw-box, a set of three or more pairs of rollers attached to combing- and certain other machines for attenuating, or drawing out, the sliver. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 264/2 Draw-box. This consists of two or more pairs of fluted rollers between the doffer and the coiler of a carding engine.
1959Times 16 Feb. 3/7 O'Neill, who is now the *drawcard of Australian cricket. 1969Australian 24 May 35/10 Yardley left St George-Budapest three seasons ago to become a top drawcard with Tranmere Rovers. 1971Sunday Times (Johannesburg) (Business Section) 28 Mar. 14/1 The biggest single drawcard for overseas tourists is London. It is experiencing an unprecedented hotel boom.
1840W. G. Simms Border Beagles 376 [I] have nothing to do but tie a few threads and lay a *draw-cord through the end-loops of the net. 1935Burlington Mag. Aug. 92/2 Only alternate threads were controlled by draw-cords. 1936Ibid. Mar. 145/2 The scale-harness is used in order to economize in the number of the drawcords on which the pattern is arranged.
c1470Henry Wallace ix. 747 Some fell in to *draw dykis deip.
1883Standard 6 Feb. 6/4 A barge..moored in the *drawdock. 1891Pall Mall G. 10 Nov. 5/1 Authority to construct new drawdocks and to repair and rebuild the existing docks.
1885R. Bagwell Irel. under Tudors I. p. vi, Content to look upon Ireland as a mere *drawfarm.
1897W. S. Taggart Cotton Spinning II. i. 2 The full cans of sliver are taken from the card and put behind the *draw-frame, so that the sliver can be passed up in the direction of the arrows through holes in the guide-plate A.
1889Scribner's Mag. Aug. 217/1 Castings daily required in the way of brake-shoes, pedestals, *draw-heads, grate-bars, etc.
1822*Draw-hoe [see hoe n.2 1 b]. 1961Amateur Gardening 23 Dec. 13 The draw hoe is pulled towards the operator and is ideal for the larger weeds, earthing up potatoes or making seed drills.
1627MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For mending on of the *drawe hoockes.
1845S. Judd Margaret i. xvii. 160 Near Hash stands the *draw-horse on which he smooths and squares his shingles.
1805Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 446 Collieries and lime-quarries were opened, *draw-kilns erected. 1894J. Geddie Fringes of Fife 25 A line of cyclopean draw-kilns.
1635Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 147 To God, their belt wherewith they are girt is knit with a single *draw-knot.
1895Daily News 3 May 7/6 When he..went to the premises they used a *draw-ladder, and went up into the depository where the goods were.
1932Daily Express 2 July 7/6 *Draw-leaf table, size 5 ft. × 3 ft. when extended. 1955R. Fastnedge Eng. Furn. Styles i. 9 Tables of joined construction..and indeed those with a draw leaf (first introduced about 1505). 1958Osborne & Creighton Epitaph G. Dillon i. 11 A draw-leaf table with dining chair.
1811Aiton Agric. Ayrsh. 475 Heather and the *draw-ling (Scirpus cæspitosus) are the chief plants that the sheep can eat.
1856S. C. Brees Gloss. Terms 153 The patent railway *draw⁓link..is now universally employed.
1831G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 238 The apparatus called a *draw-loom was invented. 1851Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. viii. **/1 The first step in improving the draw-loom was the substitution of mechanism for the handle and boy called a draw-boy.
1603Florio Montaigne i. xlix. (1632) 163 They call for their fare, tie *drawmule to.
1702in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1864 The Head not round..but somewhat like the modern *Draw-nails. 1960R. Lister Decor. Cast Ironwork Gt. Brit. 226 Draw nail, a pointed rod for driving into a pattern to extract it from its mould after ramming. Also called draw spike.
1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 160 *Draw Pins described..§6.
1895Westm. Gaz. 12 Feb. 5/3 There were only a supply and *draw pipe, and no safety valve.
1864Sala in Daily Tel. 1 Nov., Losing your money at euchre or *draw-poker. 1890Pall Mall G. 24 Mar. 4/3 The great American game of draw-poker.
1886Badm. Library, Shooting (1895) 60 They are now made without a *draw-pull, similar to a revolver.
1828J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner (ed. 2) 17 Wheeler's Tools..*Draw Shaves, Spoke Shaves..Drive Pins.
1870Z. P. Veitch Handbk. Nurses i. 9 Great care should be taken to arrange a macintosh and *draw-sheet in such a way that no blood or other discharge can possibly reach the under sheet. 1928H. Jahn Dict. Graphic Arts Terms 75 Draw-sheet, the sheet drawn on over the make-ready on a press. 1960Guardian 1 July 5/4 Mum replaces the draw sheet.
1721Perry Daggenh. Breach 31 There was intended *draw-sluices to be made.
1845C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings (1846) 127 It was Miss Celestina Pye, and she certainly had no *draw-strings in her lips just then. 1872E. Eggleston End of World xiii. 89 She pulled out the folds of the chintz curtain, hanging on its draw-string half-way up the window. 1890Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 79 The mouth of the bag is..secured by a double drawstring. 1909Westm. Gaz. 10 May 5/2 A belt of thick satin ribbon put through wide embroidered loops like a draw-string. 1955J. Cannan Long Shadows iii. 51 The striped dress with the drawstring. 1957New Yorker 16 Nov. 150/2 It's a wind-resistant..overblouse, cut straight to a drawstring waist. 1958Vogue Sept. 133 Drawstring blouses solve the problem of tuck-in blouses and skirts that are constantly parting company. 1959‘M. Erskine’ House of Enchantress iii. 36 She had..a mouth pursed like the opening to a draw-string bag. 1965C. D. Eby Siege of Alcázar (1966) i. 40 The city walls ran in an unbroken line across the neck of the Tagus loop like a drawstring on a sack.
1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 333 Considerable time is lost between each *draw-stroke and the return of the pincers.
1957J. Osborne Entertainer i. 12 Ordinary, tatty backcloth and *draw-tabs.
1904P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furn. iii. 96 An oak *draw-table of 1560. 1925Penderel-Brodhurst & Layton Gloss. Eng. Furn. 55 Draw table, a term generally associated with heavy tables like the refectory table. The top is divided into three leaves, the two end ones lying under the centre leaf. 1938Burlington Mag. Dec. 276/1 Celebrated drawtable from Hinton Abbey near Bath.
1895Daily News 16 Mar. 3/4 A *draw tap in the supply pipe.
1904P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furn. iii. 93 With the invention of the *draw-top a revolution took place in tables... The top was in three pieces, the lower leaves drawing out and being supported by long armed brackets; the upper leaf dropped into its position, and so the table elongated to double its length. 1955R. Fastnedge Eng. Furn. Styles i. 20 The draw-top table..wherein a subsidiary and additional leaf might be drawn out at each end of the table top.
1567Harman Caveat 36 A *drawe-window of a low chamber.
b. governing an object: as draw-blood, he who or that which draws blood; draw-stop, a knob or handle in an organ by which a slider is drawn so as to admit the wind to a set of pipes.
1609Bp. Hall Pharis. & Chr. Wks. (1627) 409 They beat their heads against the walls, as they went, till bloud came; whence one..is called Kizai, a Pharise *draw-bloud.
1880E. J. Hopkins in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 605 The *Draw-stop action. Ibid. 606 The ‘action’ to a single stop..consists of a draw-stop rod..a movable trundle..a trace-rod..and the lever..On pushing in the draw-stop, the action of the several parts is reversed, and the stop is silenced. |