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Dragomans
- noun - an interpreter and guide in the Near East; in the Ottoman Empire in the 18th and 19th centuries a translator of European languages for the Turkish and Arab authorities and most dragomans were Greek (many reached high positions in the government)
Draw Back
- verb - pull back or move away or backward;
- pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb"
- use a surgical instrument to hold open (the edges of a wound or an organ)
Drawplate
- - A hardened steel plate having a hole, or a gradation of conical holes, through which wires are drawn to be reduced and elongated.
Drawshave
- noun - a woodworker's knife to shave surfaces
Dreamland
- noun - a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination
Driveways
- noun - a road leading up to a private house; "they parked in the driveway"
Dromedary
- noun - one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia
Drop Back
- verb - take position in the rear, as in a military formation or in the line of scrimmage in football; "The defender dropped back behind his teammate"
- take position in the rear, especially of a military formation or team sporting event, "The defender dropped back behind his teammate"
- to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging"
Drumbeats
- noun - (military) the beating of a drum as a signal for lowering the flag at sundown
- a vehement and vociferous advocacy of a cause; "the warmongers kept up their drumbeat on Iraq"
- the sound made by beating a drum
Drumheads
- noun - a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum