drawer

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  1. noun One that draws, especially one that draws an order for the payment of money.
  2. noun A boxlike compartment in furniture that can be pulled out and pushed in.
  3. noun Underpants.

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  • There was a dead frog in his collar-drawer, and some rather slimy-looking plants in the bedroom basin. —  Vanishing Point - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 24: 1953
  • “Nothing.  Never heard of an adopted daughter Then what do you make of this?” McGregor's left hand went into a desk-drawer, and something the color of deep sea-water over a sandy bottom flashed in the sunlight as Ommony caught it. —  OM: The Secret of Ahbor Valley
  • In a drawer was a pad of plain white paper, together with a package of envelopes which matched the one he had found on the floor. —  019 - Fear Cay
  • To Loton the landscape-drawer, a Dutchman, living in St. James's Market; but there saw no good pictures. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys
  • I had a fifth in the drawer, my name on the door, and there was still hope for a flashing neon light outside the window. —  Magazine - Aeon Authors - 2006 - Issue 06 - Aeon Six
 

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  1. from Middle English drawer, drawere; from draw + -er.
 

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/ˈdrɔər/
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