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Definitions of: draught

Definition: The act of drawing or pulling

Definition: The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.

Definition: The drawing of a bowstring.

Definition: Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.

Definition: The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.

Definition: A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.

Definition: The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)

Definition: The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.

Definition: That which is drawn

Definition: That which is taken by sweeping with a net.

Definition: The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.

Definition: The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.

Definition: A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.

Definition: An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.

Definition: A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.

Definition: That which draws

Definition: A team of oxen or horses.

Definition: A sink or drain; a privy.

Definition: A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.

Definition: Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.

Definition: The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.

Definition: An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.

Definition: A move, as at chess or checkers.

Definition: The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.

Definition: See Draft, n., 7.

Definition: To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.

Definition: To diminish or exhaust by drawing.

Definition: To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

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