draw-comb. form

1794 in G. Douglas Derriana App. 206 Near the City side of the river, is a draw-arch, 25 feet wide.

1807 R. C. Hoare Tour Ireland 197 A draw-arch..of which all the machinery is worked under the floor of the bridge.

1900 W. Frear Use of Lime upon Pennsylvania Soils (Pennsylvania Dept. Agric. Bull. No. 61) 41 The opening from the interior of the kiln into the draw-arch should be closed by a door.

1907 Royal Comm. Canals & Waterways III. 150/1 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3718) XXXIII. i. 405 A draw arch was made on the new Derry bridge.

1998 M. Palmer & P. Neaverson Indust. Archaeol. iii. 53 The lime-kilns discussed below, brick or stone structures containing a bowl-shaped pot with a draw-arch at the base through which the burnt flints were removed.

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 300/1 Ergata,..a cap-stand, or windbeame, or drawbeame.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ergate, A Windlasse, Windbeame, or Draw-beame.

1463 J. Cok Compotus in Monmouthshire Antiquary (1995) 11 91 Also paied for small lyne for drawe beddys to Ragelan.

1663 Inventory Ld. J. Gordon's Furnit. in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright (1855) 186 In the chamber next adjacent..ane stand bed with a draw bed.

1980 J. Caspers in Hist. Archaeol. 39 72/2 The children slept in a small draw bed..which was kept under the parent's bed.

1743 Daily Advertiser 27 Aug. To be Sold..; all his Working-Tools, a Forge, a Lapidary's Mill, and Draw-Bench.

1859 J. Hollingshead Change for Nuggets in All Year Round 2 July 239/1 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.

1934 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 455/2 A machine of the character described comprising a draw bench adapted to support and to draw over its supporting means a sheet metal product having a seam from which flash is to be removed.

2001 E. Olver Jewelry Making Techniques Bk. 37 Drawing thick wire takes considerable strength and may require a draw bench.

1623 Edinb. Test. LII. f. 49^v in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Draw-boord Tua draw buirdis of wainscot.

1657 A. Hutchins Caines Bloudy Race 42 They have draw-boards which shoot over crosse into the two sides.

1791 R. Mylne in Rep. Engineers Commissioners Navigation Thames 56 The Stone fixed weir should have a gauge-weir with Draw-boards constructed on it.

1874 Country 10 Sept. 229/2 Cages for singing birds..should have a draw board, a seed hopper, and a drinking trough.

2006 J. E. Martin Life aboard Monkey Bus 65 I..placed my typewriter on a draw-board recessed beneath the dash-board on the truck's passenger side, and typed away.

1809 Hull Packet 19 Sept. Sundry Draw Bolts, Door Springs, &c.

1894 N.Y. Raiload Men May 300/2 An incompetent engineer..breaks couplers, pulls out drawbolts, disarranges the fine machinery of a new locomotive.

1921 E. K. Hammond Production Milling ii. 19 The final step in clamping the work is accomplished by turning a capstan wheel which fits on the threaded end of draw-bolt F.

2015 L. Atherton & L. Schreib Small-Block Chevrolet (rev. ed.) ii. 33 Allow the draw bolt to push against the head of the crank bolt.

1531 in Mem. Antiq. Great Brit. (1723) iv. 55 To Cornleys the Lock-Smythe for making..The Lock, Gymowes, Handels, Ryngs to every drawe Boxe, the price xxxvi s. iv. d.

1662 J. Greenhalgh Let. 22 Apr. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 13 In the wall..many draw boxes, with rings at them like those in a Grocer's Shop.

1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler vii. 67 Having gather'd great store of them [sc. Green Drake mayflies] into a long draw box, with holes in the Cover to give them Air..we take them out thence by the wings, and bait them thus upon the Hook.

1821 S. Wilson in London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 2 256 A long lever..enables him [sc. the weaver] to draw the heaviest morintures [sic] and figured works, without the assistance of a draw-box.

1869 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 21 Dec. Beneath the boxes are four rows of draw boxes for those having a large amount of mail.

2015 R. S. Kumar Process Managem. Spinning v. 118 The draw box found at the delivery side of the [combing] machine consists of drafting rollers that attenuate the condensed web obtained from each comber head and convert it into a single combed sliver.

1820 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 22 Apr. (advt.) Summer Hats, &c. William Pabodie Has just received, and offers for sale..Raising Cards, Napping brushes, Draw Cord, yellow, red and green Morocco Skins..and Children's Hats, of all kinds.

1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles II. xii. 184 [I] have nothing to do but tie a few threads, and lay a draw-cord through the end-loops of the net.

1936 Burlington Mag. Mar. 145/2 The scale-harness is used in order to economize in the number of the drawcords on which the pattern is arranged.

2010 Countryfile Feb. 83/4 The elasticated waist has a drawcord for adjustment.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) x. l. 53 Sum fell in-to draw dykis deip.

1590 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1888) V. 811/2 Quhilk drawdyke merchis the myre..on the west and the arrabill landis..on the eist.

1760–1 Lloyd's Evening Post 31 Dec.–2 Jan. The workmen began to break up the large ship that stuck last week in the draw-dock.

1883 Standard 6 Feb. 6/4 A barge..moored in the drawdock.

1928 Times 2 Oct. (Port of London Suppl.) p. xiii/7 There are more than a hundred ‘stairs’ in the Port of London, as well as..the best part of twenty draw docks.

2018 Evening Standard 29 Mar. 31 It is a very shallow pontoon and in a strong flood tide people [on paddle boards] were being pinned against it after they launched from the draw dock.

1746 George Faulkner Dublin Jrnl. 26–29 July advt. Greenoge is 7 Miles from Dublin.., and is very convenient for a Draw-Farm, and answers for that Purpose to all the other Farms.

1800 F. Higgins Let. 16 Apr. in T. Bartlett Revolutionary Dublin (2004) 308 That man who..made Ireland a draw farm for England.

1964 Irish Times 19 Nov. 8/7 A batch of amendments was reached covering the question of unoccupied or draw farms.

1829 Extractor 2 249/1 This draw-plate is pierced with a number of conical holes of different sizes, the size of the smaller orifice determining the diameter of the wire, which is seized by a strong pair of nippers, and forcibly drawn through these holes when the plate is placed on the draw-frame.

1836 L. Hebert Engineer's & Mechanic's Encycl. I. 406 The draw frame contains several heads of rollers.

1983 C. Evans Jewelry iii. 72 Those wishing to draw heavy-gauge wire and tubing might require the use of a draw frame.

2015 R. S. Kumar Process Managem. Spinning iv. 89 The draw frame primarily improves medium-term and especially long-term sliver evenness through doubling and drafting.

1407 in W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. (1818) II. 213 Pro factura de Drawgere per Walterum Carpenter..III^d.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Draw-gear, any Harness or Furniture of Cart-horses for drawing a Waggon or other Carriage.

1859 Illustr. London News 26 Mar. 319/3 In the event of the actual draw-gear giving way..the side chains..act immediately as draw-chains.

1969 Jane's Freight Containers 241/2 Container trains consist of..bogie flat wagons with..shock absorbing draw gear.

2005 Southern Star (Brisbane) 6 July Bradken's major plant at Runcorn, where the bogies and wagon drawgear are produced at its world-class automated foundry and bogie assembly shop, employs 470 workers.

1853 Sci. Amer. 3 Dec. 92/2 David A. Hopkins..has applied for a patent upon an improved draw head and buffer.

1860 U.S. Patent 28,220 2/2 One part consists in certain peculiarities in the construction, arrangement and operation of a draw head.

1948 Sat. Evening Post 27 Mar. 64/1 You'd have to make sure the drawhead in the engine was set to couple into the coach.

2003 L. D. Lyles & E. T. Lyles Hist Devel. Capitalism U.S. I. ii. 21 This factory..consisted of three 18-inch carding machines, a draw head with two rolls, roving cases and winders, in addition to a thistle spinning frame.

1822 J. C. Loudon Encycl. Gardening ii. iii. 317 The Draw-Hoe..is a plate of iron, six or seven inches long by two or three broad, attached to a handle about four feet long, at an angle less than a right angle.

1961 Amateur 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.

2017 Scottish Express (Nexis) 11 Mar. 44 When the first young potato shoots appear above ground, earth them up by scraping soil carefully over the top with a draw hoe.

1627 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) For mending on of the drawe hoockes.

1788 W. J. MacNeven tr. A. F. von Geissau Ess. Constr. & Use Mine-auger 42 Fig. 5. is the draw-hook for pulling out the borer.

1849 Mech. Mag. 27 Jan. 84 The object of the inventor has been to supersede the necessity of spring draw-hooks and buffers by a more effective, durable, and cheaper mode of connection.

1994 L. Hall Insight into Steam 20/1 The substantial nature of this beam contains sufficient strength to allow for the fitting of the drawhook and buffers, enabling..rolling-stock to be coupled-up.

1761 Public Ledger 22 Oct. (advt.) To be Lett..a Lime-stone Quarry, and Draw Kiln.

1805 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. II. 446 Collieries and lime-quarries were opened, draw-kilns erected.

1912 Building News 5 Jan. 45/2 Sketch A is a tunnel lime-kiln, called also a ‘continuous running’, ‘perpetual’, or ‘draw-kiln’.

2005 Archaeol. Ireland 19 18 The draw kilns burnt limestone in a continuous process.

1635 S. Rutherford Lett. (1675) iii. 25 To God, their belt, wherewith they are girt, is knit with a single draw knot.

1754 W. Emerson Princ. Mech. xi. 202 A draw knot, is the same as the last [i.e. a loop knot, used to join pieces of rope together]; only one (or both) of the ends returns the same way back, as abcde. By pulling at a the part bcd comes thro', and the knot is loosed.

1904 Textile World Rec. Aug. 18/1 Fig. 3 is a draw knot, used for splicing broken warp threads in the loom.

2013 C. Jarman Day's Knots & Splices (rev. ed.) 9 The Slipped Reef Knot or Draw Knot is just a Reef Knot..with one working end formed into a loop through the centre of the know.

1809 T. Williamson Dominican II. 103 A landing place, from which we descended by a draw-ladder into a neat kitchen.

1895 Daily 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.

1969 D. Child Yesterday's Children xiv. 215 The Martello tower, a very strong building with..a draw-ladder into the doorway nine feet from the ground.

1834 Manch. Guardian 17 May A centre fall table, with draw leaf.

1955 R. Fastnedge Eng. Furnit. Styles i. 9 Tables of joined construction..and indeed those with a draw leaf (first introduced about 1505).

2006 Build It May 110/2 Drop-down or draw leaves can be brought into action for visitors.

1917 Art World (N.Y.) Sept. p. vii/1 (advt.) A large table of the gate-leg variety is made to replace the draw-leaf table.

2015 Cornish Guardian (Nexis) 24 July 42 A quality modern oak dining suite, consisting of a draw-leaf table and eight matching ladder back chairs sold for £290.

1802 M. Sauer Acct. Geogr. & Astron. Exped. Northern Russia xv. 159 Their trinkets and costly ornaments are kept in small wooden boxes with draw lids.

1982 U.S. Patent 4,511,237 3 A top plate of the shield box is formed of a draw lid so as to allow a mirror mounted within the shield box to be cleaned.

1795 J. Naismith Observ. Breeds Sheep i. 7 Sweet grasses to feed them [sc. sheep] up in autumn, heath and bent for their winter support, and ling, moss-crops, drawling, &c. to furnish an early bite in the spring.

1811 W. Aiton Gen. View Agric. Ayr 475 Heather and the draw-ling (Scirpus cæspitosus) are the chief plants that the sheep can eat.

1815 Wks. of Alexander Pennecuik 54 Note: Draw-ling (the Eriophorum Vaginatum Linnaei, Bog Cotton, or Moss-crop) succeeds it in March, so designed because the sheep, without biting, seize tenderly the part above ground, and draw up a long white part of the plant in a socket below.

1925 Amer. Botanist Oct. 167 This reminds me that among English synonyms of Eriophorum, probably without discrimination of species, is ‘draw ling’ or ‘pull ling’, which seems to mean that this plant grows in localities favorable to the growth of ling or heather—at least that is what suggests itself.

1841 S. C. Brees Gloss. Civil Engin. 46 Mr. Booth's patent draw-links are now always employed to conduct the carriages together.

1912 Motor Boating Nov. 28/3 A draw link is securely fastened to the front end of the truck.

1992 Acad. Press Dict. Sci. & Technol. 540/1 Crampon, a hook that engages a load by means of a draw link, shackle pin, cable socket, or sling chain.

1808 J. Duncan Pract. & Descriptive Ess. Art of Weaving: Pt. II iii. 156 Very few carpets, if any, are woven in this country, excepting in draw looms.

1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 238 The apparatus called a draw-loom was invented.

1851 Art 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.

2004 Afr. Arts 37 24/2 Draw-looms are still used in Mahdia to weave narrow strips of silk in complex patterns.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xlix. 163 They call for their fare, tie drawe-mule to.

1702 R. Thoresby Let. 17 June in Philos. Trans. 1704–05 (Royal Soc.) (1705) 24 1864 The Head not round..but somewhat like the modern Draw-nails.

1886 Hub 1 May 100/2 In placing the quarters in the job, be careful to use strong draw-nails in the seaming-lace of the elbows, so as to keep the lace well stretched and firm.

1901 Shop & Foundry Pract. (Colliery Engineer Co.) IV. xxxv. 3 The pattern may be loosened by rapping sidewise on the draw-nail.

1914 Motor Boating Mar. 72/2 If draw nails are placed occasionally in the edge of deck planking.., a stronger job will be obtained.

1960 R. Lister Decorative Cast Ironwork 226 Draw nail, a pointed rod for driving into a pattern to extract it from its mould after ramming. Also called draw spike.

1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. Explan. Terms 166 Draw Pins, described..§6.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxv. 195 When the Beam is screw'd up..the Draw-Pin standing in the Hole 8 or 9. will bring the Plow so much to the left.

1859 Trans. N.Y. State Agric. Soc. 1858 18 483 If the upper hinge is not bolted to the arm,..put no less than three draw pins through the tenon.

1917 Railway & Locomotive Engin. Aug. 247/3 This safety bar has the draw pins..passing through it.

2002 P. Brett Bench Joinery iv. 103 These joints are normally wedged, although for extra strength draw pins can be used.

1834 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. June 406 (caption) Coupling box to connect draw pipe to cylinder.

1875 U.S. Patent 161,423 in Specific. & Drawings (U.S. Patent Office) 30 Mar. 1122/1 A draw-pipe..with cock, leads from the annular water-chamber.., so that hot water can be drawn from the chamber when desired.

1990 U.S. Patent 4,945,942 7 Aug. 1 The water loss is then limited to the amount of cold water disposed in draw pipes.

1776 Daily Advertiser 26 Feb. At the same Time will be sold the working Tools, and other Materials, consisting of Anvils, Ingot Moulds.., Drawbenches, and Draw-plates.., &c.

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 335 A draw-plate..made of the best steel.

1936 H. Morgenthau & T. J. Doherty Digest of Customs & Related Laws I. 204 Drawplates and wortles..are dutiable neither as steel plates nor as manufactures of steel but..as forgings.

2016 K. St. Jean Colorful Wirework Jewelry 87/2 I made my draw plate from a piece of wood, but you can purchase draw plates from any jewelry supply or hobby store.

1847 Spirit of Times 6 Feb. 589/3 I have seen various accounts in your interesting paper, of a game that is ‘extensively’ played in these diggins, called by the euphonious name of ‘Poker’, but have seen no mention made of a game that has almost superseded the old one, which is known by the name of ‘Draw Poker’.

1911 D. A. Curtis Old Man Greenhut 152 A'ter a man's done been playin' draw poker fo' some years he gets so 's 't he ain't never s'prised at nothin'.

2006 Play: N.Y. Times Sports Mag. Sept. 90/1 I played all kinds of poker with a small group of friends: stud poker and draw poker and liar's poker.

1822 Asiatick Researches 14 255 The chain..was placed upon boards, supported by rod-stands; a draw post of 5 feet in length, driven firmly into the ground, held it at one end.

1894 G. W. Macgeorge Ways & Wks. in India ii. 38 At one end the chain was secured to a ‘draw-post’, with provision for adjustment by means of a fine screw-movement.

1973 J. R. Taggart Reading Sketch by HUNCH (S.M. thesis, Mass. Inst. Technol.) App. ii. 99/2 Data can be entered into a grid from a variety of sources... The most common method takes its input from a magnetic tape or disk file produced by the draw program in hunch, consisting of a list of pen coordinates measured at constant intervals.

1995 Macworld Oct. 72/3 Adding Vector Effects to your favorite draw program brings as many new features as a whole-number upgrade, and that's saying a lot.

2020 T. Garrand Writing for Multimedia & Web 53 Sometimes just a rough sketch done in your word processor's draw program is adequate.

1874 Boston Daily Advertiser 10 Aug. (advt.) Car Trimmings—Bronze door locks, draw pulls.

1895 Ld. Walsingham & R. Payne-Gallwey Shooting (new ed.) I. 60 Four-barrelled guns..are now made without a draw-pull, similar to a revolver.

1991 Design Engin. Aug. 55 Quick-operating fasteners..Lever actuated catches..Draw-pull, bail type.

2015 Herald Sun (Austral.) (Nexis) 15 May 51 The most trendy kitchens are being painted black (well, except ours, which has 1980s peach laminate with wooden draw pulls).

1812 Maryland Herald 13 May (advt.) A snaffle bridle double reined (one a draw rein).

1894 H. Custance Riding Recoll. xvi. 242 He was riding a big, ugly black mare, with an extraordinary bridle, which consisted of a twisted ring-snaffle, draw-reins, martingale, and other contrivances too numerous to mention.

1951 B. Meyers Jockie xvi. 198 Diana flung her head to the sky as if to shake off an imaginary draw rein.

2014 Horse & Rider Apr. 6 Training at her stables in Asti is slow and progressive, without the use of training aids such as draw-reins.

1843 U.S. Patent 3,171 1/2 Through the middle of the framing of the bottom of the car, a draw rod..passes longitudinally; this rod is forked at each end to receive the bar by which the cars are connected.

1937 Pop. Sci. Monthly May 88 (caption) The draw rods are 1-in. angle irons bolted to two large C-clamps, which fit on bumper of towing car.

2009 W. Baker Compl. Bk. Curtains, Drapes, & Blinds ii. 34/1 The hand-operated ones [sc. panel glides] are pulled with an aluminum draw rod.

1824 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 23 Feb. Two gouges, one draw shave, one brad awl.

1916 Hunter-Trader-Trapper Apr. 111/1 Lay your hide over this pole and with the back edge of a draw shave, filed square, proceed to remove all the flesh from the inside of the hide.

2011 Public Historian 33 30 (caption) A visitor to the Genesee Country Village and Museum's Cooper Shop tests his skill with a draw shave.

1716 J. Perry State of Russia 10 I finish'd the same to Satisfaction..; the Sluices being 43 Foot broad..; fix'd also with Draw-Sluices.

1898 C. E. Fowler Coffer-dam Process for Piers i. 7 Each coffer-dam is to be provided with a draw-sluice.

1836 Mechanics' Mag. (N.Y.) Sept. 84/1 The draw bars..are drawn an inch or two beyond their shoulders.., stretching the draw springs.

1938 Text of Agreement Techn. Uniformity of Railways in A. J. Peaslee Internat. Governmental Organizations Constit. Docs. (1956) II. 143 Defects justifying refusal... Fracture of or damage to a draw spring.

1838 Milwaukee (Wisconsin Territory) Sentinel 6 Nov. The reticule is very handsome.., with tassals and draw strings.

1912 Amer. Motorist Aug. 619/2 Potatoes..are carried in a draw string bag of denim.

1957 New Yorker 16 Nov. 150/2 It's a wind-resistant..overblouse, cut straight to a drawstring waist.

1989 C. Courtney Morphine & Dolly Mixtures (1991) ii. 19 Gran was pulling the draw-string on the washing bag.

2017 K. Kwan Rich People Probl. i. xiv. 95 She caught sight of Charlie padding out onto the balcony clad only in his drawstring pyjamas.

1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 333 Considerable time is lost between each draw-stroke and the return of the pincers.

1916 K. S. G. Pinkerton Woodcraft for Women 118 The ‘draw’ stroke is more commonly known. To ‘draw,’ it is only necessary to reach out to the side and pull.

1917 Machinery Sept. 4/1 Graduations are cut by a reciprocating tool which cuts on the draw stroke and is lifted clear of the work on the return stroke.

2000 Canoeist Apr. 23/2 A nifty combination of backpaddling and draw strokes prevented the disaster.

2009 W. Szykitka Big Bk. Self-reliant Living 418/1 Many prefer a curved blade that cuts on the draw stroke.

1934 Stage 1 Feb. 15/3 (advt.) Opera Scenery for hire as used by the Covent Garden Opera Company on tour... Our stock includes light and dark chamber sets, wood sets, palace sets, draw tabs of different colours and sizes.

1957 J. Osborne Entertainer i. 12 (stage direct.) Ordinary, tatty backcloth and draw-tabs.

1987 R. Ham Theatres (new ed.) 235/1 Curtain track, rails from which draw tabs are hung and along which the runners or bobbins travel.

1593 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 229 J longe drawe table 12s. j lesser drawe table 6s. 8d.

1911 Wood Craft Feb. 142 (caption) Sectional elevation, plan, and working details of an extension or ‘draw’ table.

2002 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 20 July g1 A huge sideboard, a massive dish dresser and a heavy draw table were characteristic of many 19th-century farm kitchens.

1867 Builder 23 Feb. 135/2 The comparatively warm water from the mains slowly passing through the draw-taps and service-pipes keeps the water in the service-pipes from freezing.

1901 Lancet 23 Mar. 837/1 The supply of water in its simplest form implies a draw-tap and drip sink.

1984 W. H. G. Goethe et al. Handbk. Naut. Med. ii. 133/1 The draw taps at the farthest section of the water system must be opened.

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 683/2 Delivery,..the draft or allowance by which a pattern is made to free itself from close lateral contact with the sand of the mold as it is lifted. Also called draw-taper.

1987 U.S. Patent 4,683,028 2 Apparatus comprising a mould of the above described type may be used in the manufacture of necked hollow articles such as bottles or articles with a positive release draw taper such as bowls or dishes.

1839 C. Bedells Brit. Patent 7945 (1857) 4 In case it is desired to have an elastic band between two portions of knit fabric..I weave the elastic bands with a draw thread at each selvage.

1905 Machine-made Lace Industry in Europe (U.S. Dept. Commerce & Labor) No. 37 39 Lace, being made in breadths attached lightly one to the other across the width of the machine, requires the draw threads between the several breadths to be removed.

2002 M. Dickinson Tangled Threads xxxiii. 262 The twist machines make the dress lace in breadths, each one separated by a draw thread.

1850 Chemist 1 210/1 The process of drawing wire is merely that of reducing the end of the strip (by the hammer) smaller than the other, and drawing it through graduated holes in a steel plate by means of pincers, pliers, or draw tongs.

1961 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 91 231 Two pairs of small tongs (ngandu) may have been used for ironworking, although they are rather small: perhaps they are draw-tongs, for wire making.

2000 L. C. Jones tr. C. Codina Compl. Bk. Jewelry Making (2006) 30/2 (caption) With the draw tongs, seize the point and draw the wire through the draw plate.

1904 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furnit. I. 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.

1955 R. Fastnedge Eng. Furnit. Styles i. 20 The draw-top table..wherein a subsidiary and additional leaf might be drawn out at each end of the table top.

1992 Times 21 Oct. 4/3 (advt.) Oval draw top dining table in yew.

1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 719 The ‘sap-gatherer’ or ‘draw tub’, as it is called, is a hogshead containing from one hundred to one hundred and fifty gallons.

1977 Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Mass.) 14 Apr. 35/1 advt. Included in the price is an excellent 20x40 sugar house,..holding tanks for sap, draw tub..and an oil tank.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Eye Artificial Eye... In the Inside, have a short draw-Tube G, with a Lens Convex on both Sides, to do the Office of the Crystalline therein.

1817 A. Rees Cycl. (1819) XXXVI. at Tube The Construction of a Draw-tube for a Telescope.

1892 S. H. Gage Microscope & Histol. 18 To push in the draw-tube, grasp the large milled ring of the ocular with one hand, and the milled head of the coarse adjustment with the other.

1995 Sky & Telescope May 43 (advt.) Digital ReadOut (DRO) from Jim's Mobile Inc. is an electronic device that displays the position of a telescope's drawtube.

1934 Archery Rev. Feb. 8/1 The work put into a bow by an archer can be accurately determined by first plotting a draw-weight curve.

1958 Brit. Archer Oct. 115/2 He shot on his thirteenth birthday using a lady's self-lance bow at 27lbs. draw-weight.

1976 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 17 Sept. 5 b A bow with a draw weight of 40 pounds or more is adequate for the taking of many deer.

2015 Petersen's Bowhunting Nov. 78/2 Instead of shooting a heavy draw weight, maximize the amount of energy transferred out of your bow by increasing the weight of your arrow.

1567 T. Harman Caueat for Commen Cursetors (new ed.) sig. Ci A drawe window of a low chamber.

1637 S. Symonds Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1865) 4th Ser. VII. 119 For windowes,..let all have current shutting draw-windowes.

1733 Disc. Prepar., Preserv., & Restoration of Malt-liquors ii. 25 The Malt-House should..have many long small Windows in its Wall, to admit the Air and Sun, and shuts or Draw-Windows to keep out the Frost and Cold.

1814 S. Stratico Vocabolario di Marina in Tre Lingue III. 168/2 Draw-window, finestra a canale. Finestra Corsoja. Fenetre a coulisse.

1942 Billboard 1 Aug. 31/1 He slammed down the draw window.

1608 Bp. J. Hall Pharisaisme & Christianity 21 They beat their heads against the wals, as they went, till blood came: whence one..is called (Kizai) a Pharise drawblood.

1820 ‘Opifer’ in Q. Musical Mag. & Rev. 2 422 The draw-stop movement is..a combination of rollers and levers, so continued that each draw-stop may open or shut its corresponding slider.

1830 Edinb. Encycl. XV. 678/2 When both draw-stops are out, middle C and its octave above are both heard.

1880 E. J. Hopkins in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 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.

1979 Living Church 2 Dec. 14/2 Drawstop console with piston preselection.

1998 Galpin Soc. Jrnl. 51 128 The 1781 claviorganum has two draw stops in the vertical case fronts.