Other forms: drawers
A drawer is the box in a desk or a chest that slides out towards you. Handle, runners, and always too full.
The name comes from drawing it out, which is the oldest sense of the verb draw. Furniture is described by how many it has, so a chest of drawers is the standard piece. Every household has a drawer that collects things nobody can classify, and English has a name for it in the junk drawer. The word is spelled like the person who draws, and only the sentence keeps them apart.
1noundrawerA sliding box-shaped compartment in a desk or chest.
“The scissors are in the top drawer.”
Middle English
drawen
English
draw
English, today
drawer
Built from
From draw + -er. From draw + er; compare French tiroir. Attested from the 16th century. draw comes from Middle English drawen. The verb is derived from Middle English dragen, draghen, draue, drauen, drauhen, drawe, drawen, draȝe, draȝen, draȝhenn (“to drag, pull; to draw (out); to attract; to entice, lure; to lead; to make a drawing; to move, travel; etc.”), from Old English dragan (“to drag, draw”), from Proto-West Germanic dragan (“to carry, haul”), from Proto-Germanic draganą (“to carry, draw, pull”); further etymology uncertain, often said to be from Proto-Indo-European dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull, run”), but possibly from a non-Indo-European substrate root which is also the source of Latin trahō (“to pull, draw; etc.”). a doublet of drag and draught. The noun is derived from Middle English drau, draue (“action of shooting with a bow”), from drauen, drawen.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA