draught
noun
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L251806 on Wikidata ↗noun
- a type of beer
- game piece used in the game of draughts
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /dɹɑːft/ / /dɹæft/ / /dɹɔt/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English draught, draght, draȝt, from Old English *dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *draganą; equivalent to draw + -t.
- Alternative spelling of draft
“draught beer or cider”
“draught oxen, a draught horse”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English draught, draght, draȝt, from Old English *dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *draganą; equivalent to draw + -t.
- Alternative form of draft in some of its senses.
“She could feel a draught where she was sitting.”
“[…]he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught.”
- A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
- Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
- A mild vesicatory.
- An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
“Then sayde Jesus: are ye yett withoute understondinge? perceave ye not, that whatsoever goeth in at the mouth, descendeth doune into the bely, and ys cast out into the draught?”
“Rid me these Villaines from your companies; / Hang them, or stab them, drowne them in a draught, / Confound them by some course, and come to me, / Ile giue you Gold enough.”
- Any picture or drawing.
“And therefore, for the whole process, and full representation, there must be more than one draught; the one representing him in station, the other in session, another in genuflexion.”
- A sudden attack upon an enemy.
“drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English draught, draght, draȝt, from Old English *dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *draganą; equivalent to draw + -t.
- Alternative spelling of draft.
“The Parliament so often draughted and drained.”