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▪ I. † redraw, v.1 Obs. rare—1.
[f. re- + draw v., after F. retraire.]
trans. To draw back, reclaim (a person) to (something).
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xiii. xvi, I..and hys parents dide what we myghte to redrawe hym to hys fyrst nature.
▪ II. redraw, v.2|riːˈdrɔː|
[re- 5 a.]
1. intr. To draw a fresh bill of exchange to cover a former one.
a1692H. Pollexfen Disc. Trade (1697) 13 Their correspondents to reimburse themselves, Redraw on them, or on their Agents in other places. 1776Adam Smith W.N. ii. ii. (1869) I. 309 The well-known shift of drawing and redrawing. 1847–in Webster and later Dicts.
2. trans. To draw or take out again.
1805[see redrawn below]. 1825Act 6 Geo. IV, c. 50 §26 To try any issue with the same jury..without their names being returned to the box and redrawn. 1898Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 3/1 Four torpedo-boat destroyers..have been instructed to redraw their returned stores.
3. To draw (a picture, etc.) again. Also fig.
1830H. Coleridge Grk. Poets (1834) 291 That remorseless iteration, with which the battles..of the Iliad have..been redrawn and recoloured. 1894Baring-Gould Deserts S. France I. 171 The sketcher was dissatisfied with the position in which he had drawn the legs, and he re-drew them.
4. To draw up again, to compose again.
1815A. Constable Let. 26 Apr. in J. Constable Corr. (1962) I. 126 My father has had his will redrawn, leaving out the objectionable clause.
Hence reˈdrawer; reˈdrawing vbl. n.; reˈdrawn ppl. a.
1682J. Scarlett Exchanges 55 In the Redrawing of a Bill, the Redrawer is looked upon, as the absolute and first Drawer. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 428 It is as little worth remarking any farther upon all their drawing and re-drawing. 1805Southey Madoc ii. xvi, Breath and blood Followed the re-drawn shaft. 1858Homans Cycl. Commerce 176/2 The law does not require an actual re-drawing. 1889Pall Mall G. 19 Jan. 3/3 Each redrawing [of a portrait] takes us a step..further from the probable fact. |