Definition of "drawing-in" []

• In weaving, the operation of arranging the threads of yarn in the loops of the heddles. (noun)
• In bookbinding, the process of covering the boards of a book-cover with leather. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Again Nalasu waited, until the rustlings of a fresh drawing-in of the circle could be heard, whereupon Nalasu, Jerry accompanying him, picked up all his arrows and moved soundlessly half-way around the circle."
• "But the afternoon ran on without incident until the bluish drawing-in of dusk."
• "This disagreement in print is not especially surprising: published attacks on published works, public rebuttals and the drawing-in of others occur in all genres of eighteenth-century writing. reference Nor was this the only attack, real or imagined, which involved Watin."