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a box that swallows everything you need and hides it until you stop looking
means a sliding box-like compartment in a piece of furniture that pulls out for storage and pushes back in to hide its contents
from From the verb 'draw' in its old sense of 'to pull' — the same 'draw' that pulls a sword, a breath, or a cart. A drawer is literally 'the thing you pull.' The verb traces back to Old English 'dragan' (to drag, draw, pull), and the '-er' simply turns the action into the object that does it — making a drawer, quite plainly, a 'puller.'
- junk drawer
- nearly every home has one, by unspoken law
- hidden engineering
- ball-bearing slides hold over 100 pounds
- secret compartments
- antique desks hid them for letters and cash
- phantom socks
- odd ones gather where matches mysteriously vanish
great drawer of india — m. f. husain, indian modernist artist famous for his prolific drawing output across 7 decades
drawer of the dead — käthe kollwitz, german expressionist who drew grief and suffering in early 1900s berlin