(UK obsolete, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A resort; refuge; a place of shelter; that which stands one in stead.

(idiomatic, transitive) To attract. / (idiomatic, transitive) To get (someone) involved. / (idiomatic, intransitive, of night/darkness/winter) To approach.

Drawn correctly, obeying the principles of drawing.

(transport) (especially of a train) To arrive at. / (often passive) To involve someone in a difficult situation, especially when they are resistant to taking part.

plural of to-draw

(nonstandard) simple past tense of deep-draw

(idiomatic) To be unable to recall a required piece of information. / (idiomatic) To fail; not to find anything; to produce no successful response.

(cricket, of the umpires) To declare an end to the day's play, and remove the bails and sometimes the stumps. / (idiomatic) To cease doing something, at least for the day.

A tack for attaching paper to a drawing board etc

To decide at random by drawing (selecting randomly between) straws, sticks, etc., one of which differs from the others (typically by being shorter), held in a person's hand so as to conceal which is the different one. Typically, whoever draws the short straw must complete some undesirable task.