Draw Definition
- To fail to find or remember something.
- To execute (a prisoner) by tying each limb to a horse and driving the horses in different directions.
- To disembowel and dismember after hanging.
- To decide by a lottery with straws of unequal lengths.
- To decide firmly an arbitrary boundary between two things:
- To decide firmly the limit of what one will tolerate or participate in:
The officer committed fraud but drew the line at blackmail.
- to be quicker than (another) in doing something, as in drawing one's weapon
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Draw
- draw a blank
- draw and quarter
- draw straws
- draw the line
- beat to the draw
- draw and quarter
- draw away
- draw back
- draw down
- draw on
- draw oneself up
- draw out
- draw up
Origin of Draw
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From Middle English drawen, dragen, from Old English draġan, from Proto-Germanic *draganą (cf. West Frisian drage, Dutch dragen, German tragen ‘to carry’, Danish drage), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreǵ- 'to draw, pull' (compare Albanian dredh ‘to turn, spin’, Old Armenian դառնամ (daṙnam, “to turn”), Sanskrit [script?] (dhrajas) ‘load’). See also drag.
From Wiktionary
Middle English drauen from Old English dragan
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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