draw on
verb- To sketch or mark with pencil, crayon, etc., on a given surface.
- To appeal to, make a demand of, rely on; to utilize or make use of, as a source. · Without the proper resources, the young manager drew on his imagination to solve the crisis.· January 19 1782, Benjamin Franklin, letter to John Jay but I would have you draw on me for a Quarter at present which shall be paid
- To advance, continue; to move or pass slowly or continuously, as under a pulling force. · As the day draws on, the oxen will begin to show fatigue.
- To approach, come nearer, as evening. · Evening is drawing on; we'd better call it a day.· In his bones, he sensed winter was drawing on sooner than usual.
- To put on (a garment).
- To draw the trigger of a gun, so as to fire upon (something). · I drew on the pheasant as it rose.
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It’s as well, or he’d have had the drop on me with that buckshot gun of his before ever I could draw on him.
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