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  • English Word Drawable Definition Capable of being drawn.
  • English Word Drawback Definition A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature.
  • English Word Drawback Definition Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.
  • English Word Drawbar Definition An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train.
  • English Word Drawbar Definition A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.
  • English Word Drawbench Definition A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.
  • English Word Drawbolt Definition A coupling pin. See under Coupling.
  • English Word Drawbore Definition A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together.
  • English Word Drawbore Definition To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon.
  • English Word Drawbore Definition To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.
  • English Word Drawboy Definition A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.
  • English Word Drawbridge Definition A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.
  • English Word Drawcansir Definition A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully.
  • English Word Drawee Definition The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
  • English Word Drawer Definition One who, or that which, draws
  • English Word Drawer Definition One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a taproom.
  • English Word Drawer Definition One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a good drawer.
  • English Word Drawer Definition One who draws a bill of exchange or order for payment; -- the correlative of drawee.
  • English Word Drawer Definition That which is drawn
  • English Word Drawer Definition A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.
  • English Word Drawer Definition An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.
  • English Word Drawfiling Definition The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise.
  • English Word Drawgear Definition A harness for draught horses.
  • English Word Drawgear Definition The means or parts by which cars are connected to be drawn.
  • English Word Drawgloves Definition An old game, played by holding up the fingers.
  • English Word Drawhead Definition The flanged outer end of a drawbar; also, a name applied to the drawgear.
  • English Word Drawing Definition of Draw
  • English Word Drawing Definition The act of pulling, or attracting.
  • English Word Drawing Definition The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.
  • English Word Drawing Definition The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.