drawing (n.)youdaoicibaDictYouDict[drawing 词源字典]
c. 1300, "a pulling," in various senses, verbal noun from draw (v.). The "picture-making" sense is from 1520s; of the picture itself from 1660s. Drawing board is from 1725; used in figurative expression from mid-20c.[drawing etymology, drawing origin, 英语词源]