drawer

• (box)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /dɹɔː(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /dɹɔɹ/

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  • Rhymes: -ɔː(r)
  • Homophone: draw (UK)

• (person)
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɔː.ə(ɹ)/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɔ.ɚ/, /ˈdɹɔɹɚ/
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɑ.ɚ/

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  • Rhymes: -ɔːə(ɹ)

drawer (plural drawers)

1. An open-topped box that can be slid in and out of the cabinet that contains it, used for storing clothing or other articles.
2. Agent noun of draw; one who draws.
   • 2012 August 28, Manny Fernandez, “Federal Court Finds Texas Voting Maps Discriminatory”, NYTimes.com:

     Lawyers for Mr. Abbott argued that the maps were drawn to help Republicans maintain power but not to discriminate, and that drawers did not know where district offices were located.

   • 2014 January 25, Gordon Rayner, “Wanted: discreet drawer of royal bath: Buckingham Palace is seeking a housekeeping assistant for H team – just don't volunteer to change the light bulbs [online version: Wanted: an enthusiastic and proactive individual to run the Queen’s bath, 24 January 2014]”, in The Daily Telegraph‎, page 9:

     Wanted: discreet drawer of royal bath [title] ... [T]he successful applicant for the role of "housekeeping assistant" mus also be prepared for rather less conventional tasks; such as running the Queen's bath and cleaning her priceless antiques.

3. An artist who primarily makes drawings.
4. (banking) One who writes a bank draft, check/cheque, or promissory note.
5. A barman; a person who draws the beer from the taps.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. In Six Volumes, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Printed by A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292, book VII:

     When the good lieutenant applied himself to the door, he applied himself likewise to the bell; and the drawer immediately attending, he dispatched him for a file of musqueteers and a surgeon.

   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

     He came down to the Pied Horse Inn, where I was a drawer, at Newmarket, twice.

6. Someone who taps palm sap for making toddy.
   • 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 4, in Pulling the Strings:

     A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.

7. (mining, historical) A wagoner or person who pushes underground tubs.

• drawers

• redraw, reward, warder, warred