fine-draw

So we committed it to this pestilent old woman, that she might give it to who should fine-draw it and return it to us; but from that time we have never set eyes on her again till this day.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

To the _prose_: -- The first in the volume is "the Sisters," a pathetic tale of about thirty pages, which a little of the fashionable affectation of some literary coxcombs might fine-draw over a brace of small octavos.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 340, Supplementary Number (1828) Various

The crone answered, "To-morrow, Inshallah -- an it please Allah the Most High -- I will bring him to thee, at the time of thy husband's going forth from thee, and he shall fine-draw it and depart forthwith."

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

(essential for flannels); to hem; to sew over; to bind; to sew on a button; to make a button-hole; to darn; and to fine-draw.

The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Francis Galton 1866

"But the other would show worse," said the widow; "and if you fine-draw it, not one person in ten will notice it.

Can You Forgive Her? 1993

“But the other would show worse,” said the widow; “and if you fine-draw it, not one person in ten will notice it.

Can you forgive her? 1864

So we committed it to this pestilent old woman, that she might give it to who should fine-draw it and return it to us; but from that time we have never set eyes on her again till this day. "

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

FN#494] Rejoined the old woman, "O my daughter, be not chagrined; for I have a son, a fine-drawer, and he, by thy life, shall fine-draw the holes and restore the turband-cloth as it was."

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855