Definitions for drawer

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drawer draw·er

Spelling: [drawr for 1, 2; draw-er for 3–6]

IPA: /drɔr for 1, 2; ˈdrɔ ər for 3–6/

Drawer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in drawer (aderrw).

Definitions for drawer

noun

1. a sliding, lidless, horizontal compartment, as in a piece of furniture, that may be drawn out in order to gain access to it.
2. drawers, (used with a plural verb) an undergarment, with legs, that covers the lower part of the body.
3. a person or thing that draws.
4. Finance. a person who draws an order, draft, or bill of exchange.
5. Metalworking. a person who operates a drawbench.
6. a tapster.

Origin of drawer

1300-50, 1580-90 for def 1, 1560-70 for def 2; Middle English; see draw, -er¹

Examples for drawer

And who else would let them gather dust in some drawer for nearly 50 years?

But it was still the place where Kandynce did not need eyesight to find a door or a drawer or a knob.

He was silent for a moment, and then, opening a drawer, he took out a letter.

A goodly pile of letters met her eyes as she opened the drawer.

"Altogether, monsieur," said the concierge, fingering the key of the drawer that held it.

On the day when he pulled open the drawer to show me the gun, I wonder, what I was thinking?

He went to a drawer, unlocked it, and took out a long blue envelope.

He had taken these lists from the drawer of the prisoner's desk.

The gun Don used, he kept in the drawer of his writing table at the window, where he always worked.

But then I had to go back to earning real money and went to work for ‬Businessweek‪ and put the book in a drawer for a long time.