draught
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɹɑːft/
rhymes: -ɑːft
ipa: /dɹæft/
rhymes: -æft
homophone: draft
ipa: /dɹɔt/
Forms: form: draughts
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.
Senses: examples: text: She could feel a draught where she was sitting.
text: […]he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke:
text: “Drink and pass!” he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the nearest seaman. “The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short draughts—long swallows, men; ’tis hot as Satan’s hoof.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 36”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: Finally I gave him a draught, and he sank into uneasy slumber.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 35”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: Much as I wish that I had not to write this chapter, I know that I shall have to swallow many such bitter draughts in the course of this narrative. And I cannot do otherwise, if I claim to be a worshipper of Truth. […]
ref: Senses 4, 5 of draft: 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter iii
text: All the L.N.E.R. Clyde vessels are paddle-propelled, because of the shallow draught at Craigendoran Pier.
ref: 1946 July and August, “Notes and News: The War Effect on the Clyde Steamers”, in Railway Magazine, page 324:
text: A standard type of donkey jacket made of white milled flannel is being introduced by British Railways for the use of staff working in tunnels where there are conditions of extreme cold, dampness and draught.
ref: 1953 November, “Notes and News: New Clothing for Tunnel Workers”, in Railway Magazine, page 783:
glosses: Alternative form of draft in some of its senses.
glosses: A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
glosses: Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mild vesicatory.
examples: text: 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?
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
text: 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.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, chapter V, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 22:
glosses: Any picture or drawing.
examples: text: drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: A sudden attack upon an enemy.
Synonyms: sense: outhouse
word: draught-house
word: outhouse
sense: game piece
english: used in checkers
translation: used in checkers
word: checker
Derived terms: at a draught
backdraught
banker's draught
beast of draught
black draught
draught animal
draught-bar
draughtboard
draught engine
draughter
draught excluder
draught-free
draught hook
draught horse
draught-house
draught house
draughtless
draughtman
draught net
draught on Aldgate pump
draught on the pump at Aldgate
draughtproof
draughts
draught screen
draughtsman
draughtsperson
draughtswoman
draughty
love draught
morning draught
overdraught
sleeping draught
through-draught
updraught
withdraught
Related terms: draw