draught

Plural: draughts

Noun

• a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
• a large and hurried swallow
• a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)
• the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)
• a dose of liquid medicine
• the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
• Alternative form of draft in some of its senses.
• 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.
• Any picture or drawing.
• A sudden attack upon an enemy.

Verb

Verb Forms: draughted, draughting, draughts

• To prepare a preliminary version of a document; to draft.
• make a blueprint of
• Alternative spelling of draft.

Adj

• The British form of draft.

Examples

• draught beer or cider
• draught oxen, a draught horse
• He would draught out his Scrabble strategy mentally before placing tiles.
• She could feel a draught where she was sitting.

Synonyms

blueprint, draft, drawing, gulp, potation, swig, tipple, checker, draught-house, outhouse

Related Words

draw

Anagrams of draught