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A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

ry in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples. Holwell.

Dryden. To drag an anchor (Naut.), to trail it along the bottom when the anchor will not hold the ship.

A hollow tile used in making drains; -- called also draining tile.

(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. The drew out the staves of the ark. 2 Chron. v. 9. Draw thee waters for the siege. Nahum iii. 14. I opened the tumor by the point of a lancet without drawing one drop of blood. Wiseman.…

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. Weale.

An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.

The company assembled in such a room; also, a reception of company in it; as, to hold a drawing-room. He [Johnson] would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord's Prayer. Macaulay. Drawing-room car. See Palace car, under Car.

A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.

A box with holes in its lid; -- used for sprinkling flour, as on meat or a breadboard; -- called also dredging box, drudger, and drudging box.

e, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim. He has made the drift of the whole poem a compliment on his country in general. Addison. Now thou knowest my drift. Sir W. Scott.

To pierce or bore with a drill, or a with a drill; to perforate; as, to drill a hole into a rock; to drill a piece of metal.

A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.

A contrivance for holding and turning a drill. Knight.

By drops or small portions. [Obs.] Distilling dropmeal, a little at once. Holland.

My private voice is drowned amid the senate. Addison. To drown up, to swallow up. [Obs.] Holland.

An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of…

A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc. [Also written dupper.] M'Culloch.

An elderly lady holding a station between a governess and companion, and appointed to have charge over the younger ladies in a Spanish or a Portuguese family. Brande & C.

A sack to hold miscellaneous articles, as tools, supplies, or the like.