The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drawn work
Drawn \Drawn\, p. p. & a. See Draw, v. t. & i.
Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy.
Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl.
Drawn game or Drawn battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested.
Drawn fox, one driven from cover.
--Shak.
Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern.
Usage examples of "drawn work".
The bodies were wrapped in a fine cotton cloth of drawn work, which was covered by a coarser cloth resembling burlap, and all inclosed in a wrapping of palmillo matting tied with a cord made of the fiber of cedar bark.