“drew into the station” currently has 23,500 hits
“drew in to the station” currently has 1.5 million.
so “drew out” is less frequently used, but a long, long way from “never”
I’m reminded of Wilfred Owen’s Anthem For Doomed Youth (1917, when it was still a custom to lower window blinds on a death in the family):
What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes.
The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
All of those are consistent with “draw” being related to “pull”. It’s not generic motion, it’s pulling motion.
My thought exactly! Thanks for saving me the trouble of looking that picture up!
I defer to the great Jerry Garcia on this topic;
Dawn is breaking everywhere
Light a candle, curse the glare
Draw the curtains, I don’t care
The lyrics of “Touch of Grey” make it clear that drawing the curtains is done to keep the sunlight out of the room, I.e. closing them.
My instinct is to go into the room and see how the blinds already are, and then do the opposite to them.
Until whomever Jerry Garcia is establishes more linguistic authority than the Oxford English Dictionary we’ll consider their view nowt but an ambit claim.
1.b.
to draw the curtain: (a) To draw it back or aside, so as to discover what is behind; (b) to draw it forward in front of an object, so as to cover or conceal it…