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Drawer

The party initiating a draft.

Drawer

One who makes a draft. For example, with a check, the drawer is the party writing the check who demands that his/her bank pay to some third party the indicated amount of money. See also: Drawee.

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LEAFING THROUGH THIS HANDSOME LITTLE BOOK is much like opening an unsuspected drawerful of trifles and treasures in the house of a beloved and eccentric aunt.

On William Faulkner

Marsya Lennox picks four houses from a drawerful of 'million-pounders'

Property: For What it's Worth

I have a drawerful in the kitchen, but I can't bring myself to touch them since Melanie died.

FIRST PERSON - SUSAN PATRICK: I WAS NEVER ABLE TO SAY GOODBYE TO MY GIRL; SUSAN WAS ON HOLIDAY AND COULDN'T GET MEL TO ANSWER HER PHONE ... SHE JUST KNEW SOMETHING WAS HORRIBLY WRONG

Women should have a drawerful of options," says Lou Crawford, founder of The Keeper, which makes natural gum rubber cups inserted to catch menstrual flow.

Inner Sanctum

What be initially found in Ives's barn at West Redding, which had been converted into a music storeroom, must have been supremely dispiriting: "Evidentl y [Ives] was used to rummaging for things, pulling out whole fistfuls from underneath which then became the top layer, so that each drawerful [of manuscript pages] had been shuffled many times.

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Music of Charles Ives

We used to have a drawerful of knives and, at one time, we had a gun in the office.