drew

Etymology

verb

1. simple past of draw
   Mr. Banks’ panama hat was in one hand, while the other drew a handkerchief across his perspiring brow. 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 5, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad
   Iron and coal were the magnets that drew railways to this land of lovely valleys and silent mountains—for such it was a century-and-a-half ago, before man blackened the valleys with the smoke of his forges, scarred the green hills with his shafts and waste-heaps, and drove the salmon from the quiet Rhondda and the murmuring Taff. 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 157
2. (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of draw