1 to draw out

2 to pull out from in between

3 to remove part of the whole

4 (of certain plants) to sprout or bud

5 to whip or thrash

1 to extract

2 to remove

3 to draw (a sales commission, venom from a snake etc)

1 drawer

1 to smoke (a cigarette, tobacco)

1 to draw a prize

2 a lottery

3 a raffle

1 lit. to spin silk from cocoons

2 fig. to make a painstaking investigation (idiom)

1 sickness comes like a landslide, but goes slowly like spinning silk (idiom); expect to convalesce slowly

1 to make the best of a bad job

2 to make the best use of limited resources (idiom)