1807 Sir R. C. Hoare TourIrel. 197A *draw-arch..of which all the machinery is worked under the floor of the bridge.
1611 Cotgr. ,Ergate, A Windlasse, Windbeame, or *Draw-beame.
1663 Inv. Ld. J. Gordon's Furniture,In the chamber next adjacent..ane stand bed with a *draw bed.
1859 Dickens in All Year Round 2 July 239The fillets, or ribands of gold..are taken to a machine called a *draw-bench where their thickness is perfectly equalised from end to end.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 298/1.Draw-bench.
1791 R. Mylne Rep. Thames & Isis 56The Stone fixed weir should have a gauge-weir with *Draw-boards constructed on it.
1812–16 J. Smith PanoramaSc. & Art I. 120*Draw-bore pins are used in forcing a tenoned piece into its proper place in the mortise.
1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 232The Draw-bore Pin, or Hook-pin for draw-boring. [ used]
1662 Greenhalgh in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. IV. 13In the wall..many *draw boxes, with rings at them like those in a Grocer's Shop.
1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. ,Draw-box, a set of three or more pairs of rollers attached to combing- and certain other machines for attenuating, or drawing out, the sliver.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 264/2Draw-box. This consists of two or more pairs of fluted rollers between the doffer and the coiler of a carding engine.
1959 Times 16 Feb. 3/7 O'Neill, who is now the *drawcard of Australian cricket.
1969 Australian 24 May 35/10 Yardley left St George-Budapest three seasons ago to become a top drawcard with Tranmere Rovers.
1971 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) (Business Section) 28 Mar. 14/1 The biggest single drawcard for overseas tourists is London. It is experiencing an unprecedented hotel boom.
1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles 376have nothing to do but tie a few threads and lay a *draw-cord through the end-loops of the net. [ I]
1935 Burlington Mag. Aug. 92/2Only alternate threads were controlled by draw-cords.
1936 Ibid. Mar. 145/2The scale-harness is used in order to economize in the number of the drawcords on which the pattern is arranged.
c1470 Henry Wallace ix. 747Some fell in to *draw dykis deip.
1883 Standard 6 Feb. 6/4 A barge..moored in the *drawdock.
1891 Pall Mall G. 10 Nov. 5/1 Authority to construct new drawdocks and to repair and rebuild the existing docks.
1885 R. Bagwell Irel. under Tudors I. p. vi,Content to look upon Ireland as a mere *drawfarm.
1897 W. S. Taggart Cotton Spinning II. i. 2The full cans of sliver are taken from the card and put behind the *draw-frame, so that the sliver can be passed up in the direction of the arrows through holes in the guide-plate A.
1889 Scribner's Mag. Aug. 217/1Castings daily required in the way of brake-shoes, pedestals, *draw-heads, grate-bars, etc.
1822 *Draw-hoe . [ see hoen. 2 1 b]
1961 Amateur Gardening 23 Dec. 13 The draw hoe is pulled towards the operator and is ideal for the larger weeds, earthing up potatoes or making seed drills.
1627 MS. Acc. St. John'sHosp. ,Canterb. ,For mending on of the *drawe hoockes.
1845 S. Judd Margaret i. xvii. 160Near Hash stands the *draw-horse on which he smooths and squares his shingles.
1805 Forsyth BeautiesScotl. II. 446Collieries and lime-quarries were opened, *draw-kilns erected.
1894 J. Geddie Fringes of Fife 25A line of cyclopean draw-kilns.
1635 Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 147To God, their belt wherewith they are girt is knit with a single *draw-knot.
1895 Daily News 3 May 7/6 When he..went to the premises they used a *draw-ladder, and went up into the depository where the goods were.
1932 Daily Express 2 July 7/6 *Draw-leaf table, size 5 ft. × 3 ft. when extended.
1955 R. Fastnedge Eng. Furn. Styles i. 9Tables of joined construction..and indeed those with a draw leaf (first introduced about 1505).
1958 Osborne & Creighton Epitaph G. Dillon i. 11A draw-leaf table with dining chair.
1811 Aiton Agric. Ayrsh. 475Heather and the *draw-ling (Scirpus cæspitosus) are the chief plants that the sheep can eat.
1856 S. C. Brees Gloss. Terms 153The patent railway *draw⁓link..is now universally employed.
1831 G. R. Porter SilkManuf. 238The apparatus called a *draw-loom was invented.
1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. viii. **/1The first step in improving the draw-loom was the substitution of mechanism for the handle and boy called a draw-boy.
1603 Florio Montaigne i. xlix. (1632) 163They call for their fare, tie *drawmule to.
1702 in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1864The Head not round..but somewhat like the modern *Draw-nails.
1960 R. Lister Decor. Cast IronworkGt. Brit. 226Draw nail, a pointed rod for driving into a pattern to extract it from its mould after ramming. Also called draw spike.
1703 Moxon Mech. Exerc. 160*Draw Pins described..§6.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 12 Feb. 5/3There were only a supply and *draw pipe, and no safety valve.
1864 Sala in DailyTel. 1 Nov.,Losing your money at euchre or *draw-poker.
1890 Pall Mall G. 24 Mar. 4/3 The great American game of draw-poker.
1886 Badm. Library, Shooting (1895) 60 They are now made without a *draw-pull, similar to a revolver.
1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner (ed. 2) 17Wheeler's Tools..*Draw Shaves, Spoke Shaves..Drive Pins.
1870 Z. P. Veitch Handbk. Nurses i. 9Great care should be taken to arrange a macintosh and *draw-sheet in such a way that no blood or other discharge can possibly reach the under sheet.
1928 H. Jahn Dict. Graphic Arts Terms 75Draw-sheet, the sheet drawn on over the make-ready on a press.
1960 Guardian 1 July 5/4 Mum replaces the draw sheet.
1721 Perry Daggenh. Breach 31There was intended *draw-sluices to be made.
1845 C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings (1846) 127It was Miss Celestina Pye, and she certainly had no *draw-strings in her lips just then.
1872 E. Eggleston End of World xiii. 89She pulled out the folds of the chintz curtain, hanging on its draw-string half-way up the window.
1890 Anthony's Photogr. Bull. III. 79The mouth of the bag is..secured by a double drawstring.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 May 5/2A belt of thick satin ribbon put through wide embroidered loops like a draw-string.
1955 J. Cannan Long Shadows iii. 51The striped dress with the drawstring.
1957 New Yorker 16 Nov. 150/2 It's a wind-resistant..overblouse, cut straight to a drawstring waist.
1958 Vogue Sept. 133 Drawstring blouses solve the problem of tuck-in blouses and skirts that are constantly parting company.
1959 ‘M. Erskine’ House of Enchantress iii. 36She had..a mouth pursed like the opening to a draw-string bag.
1965 C. D. Eby Siege of Alcázar (1966) i. 40The city walls ran in an unbroken line across the neck of the Tagus loop like a drawstring on a sack.
1833 J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 333Considerable time is lost between each *draw-stroke and the return of the pincers.
1957 J. Osborne Entertainer i. 12Ordinary, tatty backcloth and *draw-tabs.
1904 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furn. iii. 96An oak *draw-table of 1560.
1925 Penderel-Brodhurst & Layton Gloss. Eng. Furn. 55Draw table, a term generally associated with heavy tables like the refectory table. The top is divided into three leaves, the two end ones lying under the centre leaf.
1938 Burlington Mag. Dec. 276/1Celebrated drawtable from Hinton Abbey near Bath.
1895 Daily News 16 Mar. 3/4 A *draw tap in the supply pipe.
1904 P. Macquoid Hist. Eng. Furn. iii. 93With the invention of the *draw-top a revolution took place in tables... The top was in three pieces, the lower leaves drawing out and being supported by long armed brackets; the upper leaf dropped into its position, and so the table elongated to double its length.
1955 R. Fastnedge Eng. Furn. Styles i. 20The draw-top table..wherein a subsidiary and additional leaf might be drawn out at each end of the table top.
1567 Harman Caveat 36A *drawe-window of a low chamber.
1609 Bp. Hall Pharis. &Chr. Wks. (1627) 409They beat their heads against the walls, as they went, till bloud came; whence one..is called Kizai, a Pharise *draw-bloud.
1880 E. J. Hopkins in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 605The *Draw-stop action.
Ibid. 606The ‘action’ to a single stop..consists of a draw-stop rod..a movable trundle..a trace-rod..and the lever..On pushing in the draw-stop, the action of the several parts is reversed, and the stop is silenced.
ORIGIN: Repr. draw noun, verb .