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drawer

 
/drɔr/, /ˈdrɔ·ər/ n [C]

Definition

a wide but not very deep container, open at the top, that is part of a piece of furniture and that a person can pull partly out from its front to put things in and then push back to make it even with the front of the furniture: I keep my socks in the bottom drawer of my dresser.
(Definition of drawer n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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