Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Requiring considerable depth of water to float in; sinking deep in the water.

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Examples

  • They were there forty-five days before they could build a ship and sail back to Macao. 4 Indeed, Taiwan's western coast was dangerous for deep-drawing European ships because its sandbars and shallows shifted with tide and weather.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • Its waters were shallow and filled with sandbars, making navigation difficult, especially for deep-drawing European ships.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • Its waters were shallow and filled with sandbars, making navigation difficult, especially for deep-drawing European ships.

    Andrade on the Chinese Settlement of Taiwan Michael Turton 2007

  • Farewell to the giant powers of man, — to knowledge that could pilot the deep-drawing bark through the opposing waters of shoreless ocean, — to science that directed the silken balloon through the pathless air, — to the power that could put a barrier to mighty waters, and set in motion wheels, and beams, and vast machinery, that could divide rocks of granite or marble, and make the mountains plain!

    The Last Man 2003

  • In modern batch or mass production such operations are performed on special machines by means of pressing, deep-drawing, bending and embossing tools

    1. Purpose of hammering and marking 1990

  • There are only two German seaports with water of depth sufficient to accommodate the deep-drawing vessels in which foreign commerce is now mainly carried on -- namely, CUXHAVEN, the outport of Hamburg, sixty-five miles from

    Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) Various

  • Farewell to the giant powers of man, -- to knowledge that could pilot the deep-drawing bark through the opposing waters of shoreless ocean, -- to science that directed the silken balloon through the pathless air, -- to the power that could put a barrier to mighty waters, and set in motion wheels, and beams, and vast machinery, that could divide rocks of granite or marble, and make the mountains plain!

    III.1 1826

  • Farewell to the giant powers of man, -- to knowledge that could pilot the deep-drawing bark through the opposing waters of shoreless ocean, -- to science that directed the silken balloon through the pathless air, -- to the power that could put a barrier to mighty waters, and set in motion wheels, and beams, and vast machinery, that could divide rocks of granite or marble, and make the mountains plain!

    The Last Man 1826

  • Farewell to the giant powers of man, -- to knowledge that could pilot the deep-drawing bark through the opposing waters of shoreless ocean, -- to science that directed the silken balloon through the pathless air, -- to the power that could put a barrier to mighty waters, and set in motion wheels, and beams, and vast machinery, that could divide rocks of granite or marble, and make the mountains plain!

    The Last Man Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824

  • This will boost the drive toward expanded production of such value-added, higher-margin mill products as deep-drawing and extra deep-drawing sheets and new generations of high-strength, low-alloy and dual-phase grades.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

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