Drawinge

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. An archaic term for the act of pulling something along or tracing lines to make a figure ; a picture or sketch produced with pencil, pen or crayon
2. Old-fashioned word for the process of hauling or marking out lines on a surface ; a rendering or sketch made in lines on paper
3. Archaic noun meaning the action of pulling something toward oneself or of making a line-based image ; a figure or sketch made by such lines

Etymology: "Drawinge" is an older spelling of "drawing," the form the noun took in Middle English, when final "e" was still written after such words. The word itself is the same, and the spelling is the main difference. The root is Old English "dragan," "to draw" or "to pull," which is related to Old Norse "draga" and to German "tragen," "to carry." The "-ing" ending turned the verb into a noun for the act or result of drawing. The noun's earliest sense was the action of pulling or hauling. The later sense of a made line or picture developed from the idea of drawing a figure out onto a surface, though I am not certain of the exact date that sense first appeared in English.