Refining and Redefining

Yesterday, we explored a word, temper. Today let’s look at the word, “draw” and what it has in common with beer. In my world the word “Draw” always meant to pull. Draft meant to pull as well, that’s why there are draft horses; they pull things. When you drink a beer you draw it from the glass and there is draft beer which is pulled from the keg.

You can pull money by taking a draw and pulling money from a checking account has one drafting a check.

I was once in a drawing class where the instructor asked what the definition of “Draw” was, to which I answered, “to draw is pull, like pulling an image from a surface with a tool.”

It’s interesting when we become so comfortable with the meaning of words that we lose touch with its roots and its meaning. Many words seem to take on very shallow and narrow definition after their over-use, like if you thought of the word draw without a reference to pulling. However, when one takes words apart and looks at the crude from which their vapors were refined; one will find a much deeper unintentional meaning that is often more literal and fitting than what one would believe possible.