drew* n
   1 In 'knitting' a fish-net, a certain number of meshes formed in a row.
   T 48-64 Then you'd slip that off o' your card—'twas a bit tedious first until you get three or four drews, they called it, knit up; that was three or four back an' forth—the hundred meshes. Q 73-1 [There are] ninety-eight meshes in a drew.
   2 A quantity of dried and salted cod-fish equal to the length of a storage pound.
   T 395-67 [We'd] turn over the fish what was there, turn over one drew, right the length o' that pound; instead of face up, they'd be back up.

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