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harpoon with a pivoted crosspiece in a mortise near the point to prevent it from being drawn out when a whale, shark, or other animal, is harpooned. -- Toggle joint, an elbow or knee joint, consisting of two bars so connected that they may be brought quite or nearly into a straight line, and made to produce great end…

a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush. The lines, though touched but faintly, are drawn right. Pope.

That which is towed, or drawn by a towline, as a barge, raft, collection of boats, ect.

ng from the collar or breastplate to a whiffletree attached to a vehicle or thing to be drawn; a tug.

Something drawn out or extended; expanse. "The deep tract of hell." Milton.

Capable of being drawn out in length; ductile. Bacon.

The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn; as, the traction of a muscle.

conceived as described by the motion of one end of a tangent line as the other end was drawn along the given line.

To be drawn out in length; to follow after. When his brother saw the red blood trail. Spenser.

That which is drawn along in the rear of, or after, something; that which is in the hinder part or rear. Specifically : --

laid in the streets of a town or city, on which cars for passengers or for freight are drawn by horses; a horse railroad.

nd the travers draw anon. Chaucer. And the entrance of the king, The first traverse was drawn. F. Beaumont.

Relating to, or drawn from, trees. [Obs.] Spenser. Treen liquors, especially that of the date. Evelyn.

A steel cylinder round which metal is drawn in the process of forming tubes. Tomlinson.

An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.

To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.

A narrow cart that is pushed by hand or drawn by an animal. [Eng.]

A blowing apparatus, in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace. [Written also trompe, and trombe.]

hes and for the quality of their flesh. All the species breed in fresh water, but after spawning many of them descend to the sea if they have an opportunity.

d other heavy articles. Goods were conveyed about the town almost exclusively in trucks drawn by dogs. Macaulay.