Vocabulary : Dravida to Drawboy

Dravida : A race of Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.
Dravidian : Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
Draw : To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow. ;; To influence to move or tend toward one's self; to exercise an attracting force upon; to call towards itself; to attract; hence, to entice; to allure; to induce. ;; To cause to come out for one's use or benefit; to extract; to educe; to bring forth; as: (a) To bring or take out, or to let out, from some receptacle, as a stick or post from a hole, water from a cask or well, etc. ;; To pull from a sheath, as a sword. ;; To extract; to force out; to elicit; to derive. ;; To obtain from some cause or origin; to infer from evidence or reasons; to deduce from premises; to derive. ;; To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank. ;; To take from a box or wheel, as a lottery ticket; to receive from a lottery by the drawing out of the numbers for prizes or blanks; hence, to obtain by good fortune; to win; to g
Drawable : Capable of being drawn.
Drawback : A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature. ;; Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied.
Drawbar : An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. ;; A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car.
Drawbench : A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.
Drawbolt : A coupling pin. See under Coupling.
Drawbore : A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. ;; To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon. ;; To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.
Drawboy : A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.
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