Draught is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DRAUGHT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to draft
• prepare a preliminary version of (a document)
• select (a person or group of people) and bring them somewhere for a certain purpose
• conscript (someone) for military service
• select (a player) for a sports team through the draft
• make preliminary plan
• To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.
• To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
• To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
• make a blueprint of
NOUN:
• a preliminary version of a piece of writing
• a plan, sketch, or rough drawing
• a mode of operation of a printer in which text is produced rapidly but with relatively low definition.
• a written order to pay a specified sum.
• compulsory recruitment for military service
• a procedure whereby sports players are made available for selection or reselection by the teams in a league, usually with the earlier choices being given to the weaker teams
• a group or individual selected from a larger group for a special duty, e.g. for military service
• The act of drawing or pulling
• The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.
• The drawing of a bowstring.
• Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.
• The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
• A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
• The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)
• The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
• That which is drawn
• That which is taken by sweeping with a net.
• The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.
• The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.
• A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.
• An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.
• A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.
• That which draws
• A team of oxen or horses.
• A sink or drain; a privy.
• A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.
• Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
• 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.
• An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.
• A move, as at chess or checkers.
• The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.
• See Draft, n., 7.
• 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
• current of cold air, esp in an enclosed space
ADJECTIVE:
• Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.
• Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.
• Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.
• Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.
• (of an animal) used for pulling heavy loads

Words related to DRAUGHT

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Words that contain DRAUGHT

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How to use DRAUGHT in a sentence

• She was choking, and taking up the glass of water again with both hands, she emptied it at a draught.
• God knows how my mind recoiled from, the very thought of his being always with Aniela, but to make my sacrifice complete I had made up my mind to swallow the bitter draught.
• I drank it off at a draught, which I might well do, for it did not hold half a pint, and tasted like a small wine of Burgundy, but much more delicious.
• We see this in the account given us of the miraculous draught of fishes.
• So he sat, the master of France, yet the slave to every puff of wind, for a wandering draught had set him shivering and shaking.
• The forward swing of the cradle, too, raised a slight draught of air.
• But there were no wheeled vehicles nor draught animals.
• Endicott placed the bottle to his lips and was surprised to find that he emptied it almost at a draught.
• Under ordinary circumstances, after I had lain quietly in the darkness for half an hour, the draught that I had taken would have sent me to sleep.
• She opened the door, so as to make a draught of air in the room, and called for water.
• The cold draught restored him, his blood resumed its natural course, and he could see.
• His supper consists of an egg and a draught of small beer.
• No material alterations were proposed or made in any part of the draught.
• The cup of fame, newly held to her lips, could not but prove an intoxicating draught.
• In this first act two important themes are introduced, the Tarnhelm theme and that of the draught of forgetfulness.
• The want of gun-boats and vessels of light draught was the chief ingredient in the elements of discomfiture which affected the allies.
• One of the principal English bankers here has, I understand, sent an agent by balloon to buy boats of small draught in England, in order to bring provisions up the Seine.
• I could also set a broken bone, and could mix as bitter a draught as any Jew out of Judea.
• We rode up to the tents and asked for a draught of water, instead of which these people very kindly gave us some dishes of excellent buttermilk.
• And Nick laughed, and after a long draught of whisky and soda observed that possibly they were more primitive than she imagined.
• For the rest, one might perhaps call it a draught of Naval small beer, but a very sparkling beverage and served with a highly attractive head upon it.
• Orm never made a cast of his net without getting a plentiful draught.
• In half an hour afterwards Ephraim came in with a draught, which I was desired to take by Mr Cophagus, and then to try and sleep.
• Lord! What a draught! A gust of icy air was raging in my face.

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