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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.