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  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Draw
  2. n. The act of pulling, or attracting.
  3. n. The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.
  4. n. The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.
  5. n. The process of pulling out and elongating the sliver from the carding machine, by revolving rollers, to prepare it for spinning.
  6. n. The distribution of prizes and blanks in a lottery.
  7. n. an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper
  8. n. a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines
  9. n. the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams
  10. n. players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
  11. n. act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source
  12. n. the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling