bench used by kabuki actors during performance; for enemies and allies to pull back their troops at the same time; responding to enemy arrow fire with arrow fire
lottery; tombola; drawing
being put off (by someone's words, behaviour, etc.); being taken aback; recoiling (in shock, disgust, etc.); zooming out or pulling the camera back to get a wider image
price reduction; discount
tout; swindler; con-man; pimp
thinning out; pruning; culling; infanticide
guidance; lead; introduction; good offices; guide; primer
discount; reduction; rebate; tenths discounted; tenths reduced
traction; towing; hauling; driving (e.g. economic growth)
something so heavy it must be pulled by a thousand men; pulling with strength of a thousand people
deduction in advance (of tax, interest, etc.)
walking off with someone's bag; luggage theft; luggage thief
drawing a line (esp. through an entry in a ledger, record book, etc.); striking out; cancellation (of a debt); writing off; indicating a long vowel with a long-vowel mark; long-vowel mark
leaving work (office, school) early; quick lookup (in a dictionary, index, etc.)
day that is lucky in the morning and evening but unlucky around noon, when one's luck affects others (in the traditional calendar)
having two horses draw (e.g. a carriage); two-horse-drawn carriage
absence from work or school due to mourning; secluding oneself in mourning
sawing; death by sawing (i.e. as a capital punishment)
drawing red lines; red lines on maps marking town limits (Edo period); (arch.) red lines marking nouns in kanbun texts
salted fish (esp. salmon)
drawing a bow without an arrow nocked
citation at second remove; second hand citation
acquiring a rare character or item (e.g. from a loot box)
after (deduction of) tax; after-tax (income or profits); excluding tax (of a price)
looking up a word or kanji by its reading (rather than by its radical or stroke count); katakana-hiragana prolonged sound mark
reverse lookup (e.g. dictionary, address resolution, etc.)
seine fishing; seining; seine; seine net
tehonbiki (type of card game associated with gambling)
(arch.) type of loom used in olden times; loom; traditional loom
blue-gray snapper (Aprion virescens); green jobfish
zinc-coated; galvanized; galvanised
lookup (e.g. in a dictionary, address list, etc.)
bracket saw; sabre saw; saber saw
sleeper; lumber girder; last player of three (in mekuri karuta)
knob-and-tube wiring; insulator wiring; electrical wiring strung on surface-mounted insulators
non-refundable restoration fee (when moving out of a property); money withheld from a deposit
drawing one's desired prize from a lottery (as opposed to purchasing directly or acquiring through trade)