draught
IPA: drˈæft
noun
- (Britain) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
- (Australia) Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
- (UK, medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
- (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
- (UK, obsolete) Any picture or drawing.
- (UK, obsolete) A sudden attack upon an enemy.
- (British spelling) Alternative form of draft in some of its senses.
verb
- (British spelling) Alternative spelling of draft [(transitive) To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.]
adjective
- (British spelling) The British form of draft.
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Examples of "draught" in Sentences
- Allah do the death of Love, what a bitter draught is his!
- Hence the phrase "I feel a draught" is unknown in that country.
- The faint back-draught from the headsails fanned his cheek and chest with
- A general disinclination to submit to the draught is apparent all over the country.
- At sundown his captor entered the chamber and gave him a meager draught from the canteen.
- Which reminded him that he must hire a pew, in the sun if possible and well forward so as to be out of the draught from the door.
- Yeah the long draught is about to be broken. pitty that battlestar is not coming back till 2008 because then i would be jumping for joy.
- October 4th, 2009 BANGKOK - Gilles Simon broke a title draught stretching a year as the Frenchman dominated Serb Viktor Troicki 7-5, 6-3 Sunday to win the Thailand Open.
- It was but yesterday that such beings peopled the forest, beings with as much of life as runs within our own veins, who drank their daily draught from the springs we now call our own; yesterday they were here, to-day scarce a vestige of their existence can be pointed out among us.
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