VERB
-
remove (a commodity) from (a supply source)
She drew $2,000 from the account
The doctors drew medical supplies from the hospital's emergency bank -
remove by drawing or pulling
She placed the tray down and drew off the cloth
draw away the cloth that is covering the cheese
How To Use draw off In A Sentence
- It was like leeches they used back when, to draw off bad blood but in this case they drew off fat.
- We could draw off a pint to fill a customer's empty jam jar.
- Secondly, the Russians might abandon Vilna and draw off to mass in force south of a line running from Grodno to Slonim; in that case the Grande Armée would sweep into the Russian rear, and pen them in a pocket formed by Slonim, the Pripet Marshes, the rivers Bug and Narew—a repetition, in fact, of the enveloping movement used to such good effect at Ulm in 1805. THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
- I constructed near the seashore a little sluiceway, to draw off the water whenever I desired. Champlain's Dream
- We could draw off a pint to fill a customer's empty jam jar.
- The supply pipe has a siphon-piece of "compo" tubing at the top, to draw off the water when the tube has been filled by suction, and a small tap at the bottom. Things To Make
- Draw off another pint of beer, please.
- Digest with a gentle heat, then draw off 10 galls. in a bath heat, and dulcify with fine sugar.
- If a volatile alkaloid, add a few pieces of calcium chloride to ethereal solution to absorb the water; draw off the ethereal solution with a pipette, allow it to evaporate, and test the residue for the alkaloids, conine and nicotine. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
- On the top of the kiln should be placed a ventilator to draw off the steam of the malt, this may be done by means of a loover or cow; the latter turns with the wind, the former is stationary. The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
