draught
Alternative spelling of draft
Adjective
- Alternative spelling of draft
- draught beer or cider
- draught oxen, a draught horse
Origin
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.
Noun
- 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. - 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke:
- “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. - 1851 November 14,...
- 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? - 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The...
- 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. - c. 1605–1608 (date written), William...
- 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. - 1650, Thomas Browne, chapter V, in...
- A sudden attack upon an enemy.
- drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you - 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC;...
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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
Verb
- Alternative spelling of draft.
- The Parliament so often draughted and drained. - 1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and...