drawer

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a boxlike container in a piece of furniture; made so as to slide in and out
noun the person who writes a check or draft instructing the drawee to pay someone else
noun an artist skilled at drawing

From draw (“to move by pulling”) + -er; compare French tiroir. Attested from the 16th century.

Not for anything in the drawers. — The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
"It's right here in the drawer. — Torchy and Vee, Sewell Ford
Dey's in dat drawer in de table. — John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein, Frank R. Stockton

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