A drawer. Obsolete.
1828.
I hate to have my papers touched, | |
Or meddled witha straw | |
She calls it slicking up the room, | |
And stuffs them in the draw. | |
Richmond Enquirer, Aug. 22, p. 4/1: from the Boston Statesman. |
1829. That celebrated receptacle of Chancery papers, from which nothing is ever to be withdrawnthe draw or bushel basket, (I dont know which,) of his venerable predecessor.B. F. Butler to Jesse Hoyt, March 19: W. L. Mackenzie, Lives of Butler and Hoyt, p. 50 (Boston, 1845).
1862.
Once git a smell o musk into a draw, | |
An it clings hold like precerdents in law. | |
Lowell, Biglow Papers, 2nd S., No. 6. |
See also BUREAU, 1764, 1772.