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▸ noun: A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
▸ noun: The draw through a flue of gasses or smoke resulting from a combustion process.
▸ noun: An act of drinking.
▸ noun: The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
▸ noun: A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
▸ noun: Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
▸ noun: (nautical) The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
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▸ noun: A version of a written work (such as a book or paper) or drawing.
▸ noun: An unsent e-mail.
▸ noun: A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
▸ noun: A cheque; an order for money to be paid.
▸ noun: (US, Canada, usually with the) Conscription; the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
▸ noun: (politics, US) A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
▸ noun: (sports, US) A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
▸ noun: (American spelling, rail transport) The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack (stretched) condition.
▸ noun: The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
▸ noun: (American spelling, possibly archaic)
▸ noun: The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something along or back.
▸ noun: The act of drawing in a net for fish.
▸ noun: That which is drawn in; a catch; a haul.
▸ noun: (British English, possibly archaic) A quantity that is requisitioned or drawn out from a larger population.
▸ noun: (Appalachia)
▸ noun: A small stream or tributary.
▸ noun: (especially Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania) A ravine or narrow valley, especially one through which a stream (at least intermittently) flows.
▸ verb: (transitive) To write a first version; to make a preliminary sketch.
▸ verb: To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
▸ verb: To write a law.
▸ verb: To select (someone or something) for a particular role or purpose.
▸ verb: (transitive, US) To conscript (a person); to force (a person) to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
▸ verb: To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
▸ verb: (transitive, sports, US) To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive) To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
▸ verb: To draw out; to call forth.
▸ verb: To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
▸ adjective: (not comparable) Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.
▸ adjective: Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.
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