Drawer

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  drawer \draw"er\, n.
     1. One who, or that which, draws; as:
        (a) One who draws liquor for guests; a waiter in a
            taproom. --Shak.
        (b) One who delineates or depicts; a draughtsman; as, a
            good drawer.


        (c) (Law) One who draws a bill of exchange or order for
            payment; -- the correlative of drawee.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     2. That which is drawn; as:
        (a) A sliding box or receptacle in a case, which is opened
            by pulling or drawing out, and closed by pushing in.
        (b) pl. An under-garment worn on the lower limbs.
            [1913 Webster]
  
     {Chest of drawers}. See under {Chest}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  drawer
       n 1: a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to
            slide in and out
       2: the person who writes a check or draft instructing the
          drawee to pay someone else
       3: an artist skilled at drawing [syn: {draftsman}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "drawer":
     architectural draftsman, archives, armory, arsenal, attic, bank,
     basement, bay, bin, bonded warehouse, bookcase, box, bunker,
     buttery, cargo dock, caricaturist, cartoonist, cellar, chest,
     closet, conservatory, crate, crayonist, crib, cupboard, delineator,
     depository, depot, dock, draftsman, dump, exchequer, glory hole,
     godown, hold, hutch, library, locker, lumber room, lumberyard,
     magasin, magazine, pastelist, rack, repertory, repository,
     reservoir, rick, shelf, stack, stack room, stock room, storage,
     store, storehouse, storeroom, supply base, supply depot, tank,
     treasure house, treasure room, treasury, vat, vault, warehouse,
     wine cellar
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  DRAWER, contracts. The party who makes a bill of exchange.
       2. The obligations of the drawer to the drawee and every subsequent 
  holder lawfully entitled to the possession, are, that the person on whom he 
  draws is capable of binding himself by his acceptance that he is to be found 
  at the place where he is described to reside, if a description be given in 
  the bill; that if the bill be duly presented to him, he will accept in 
  writing on the bill itself, according to its tenor, and that he will pay it 
  when it becomes due, if presented in proper time for that purpose; and that 
  if the drawee fail to do either, he, the drawer, will pay the amount, 
  provided he have due notice of the dishonor. 3. The engagement of the drawer 
  of a bill is in all its parts absolute and irrevocable. 2 H. Bl. 378; 3 B. & 
  P. 291; Poth. Contr. de Change, n. 58; Chit. Bills, 214, Dane's Ab. h.t.