Draught

Definition: Draught

Draught

Noun

1. A serving of drink (usually alcoholic).

2. A large and hurried swallow; "he finished it at a single gulp".

3. A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle).

4. The depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded).

5. A dose of liquid medicine; "he took a sleeping draft".

6. The act of moving a load by drawing or pulling.

Verb

1. Make a blueprint of.

Date "draught" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Draught \Draught\ (dr[.a]ft), transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Draughted; Draughting.]. (references)

Domain	Definition
19th Century Satire	What gives a cold, cures a cold, and pays the doctor's bill. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Food & Agriculture	A single draught of a net. Source: European Union. (references)
	The depth of water which a ship requires to float freely. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	The amount of taper in a mould necessary to allow the withdrawal of the moulding. Source: European Union. (references)
Medicine	Unwanted local convective cooling of a person. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	The angle of taper on the side walls of the die impressions to permit the removal of the forging from the dies. Source: European Union. (references)
Personal Care & Hotels	The pressure difference which causes a current of air or gases to flow through a flue, chimney, space, etc. Source: European Union. (references)
	Current of air in room, chimney, etc. Source: European Union. (references)
Public Administration	The distance from the bottom of a ship to its floating waterline. It plays a role in the seaworthiness and safety of the vessel. Source: European Union. (references)
Slang in 1811	DRAUGHT, or BILL, ON THE PUMP AT ALDGATE. A bad or false bill of exchange. See ALDGATE. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Transportation	Depth between the water surface and the bottom of a craft. (Jane's Yearbooks, Surf. skimmer syst. , 69, p. 298). Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Draught

Synonyms: air current (n), drawing (n), gulp (n), potation (n), swig (n), tipple (n), blueprint (v), draft (v). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: draughted (transportation).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Combatant	Levy, draught; Landwehr, Landsturm; conscript, recruit, cadet, raw levies.
Depth	Soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion; plummet, sound, probe; sounding rod, sounding line; lead.
Food	Drinking; Verb: potation, draught, libation; carousal; (amusement); drunkenness.
	Drink, beverage, liquor, broth, soup; potion, dram, draught, drench, swill; nip, sip, sup, gulp.
Multitude	Noun: mul numerous; Adjective: numerosity, numerality; multiplicity; profusion; (plenty); legion, host; great number, large number, round number, enormous number; a quantity, numbers, array, sight, army, sea, galaxy; scores, peck, bushel, shoal, swarm, draught, bevy, cloud, flock, herd, drove, flight, covey, hive, brood, litter, farrow, fry, nest; crowd; (assemblage); lots; all in the world and his wife.
Nonassemblage Dispersion	Verb: disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off; strew, straw, strow; ted; spirtle, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal out, retail, utter; resperse, intersperse; set abroach, circumfuse.
Pain	Noun: painfulness; Adjective: trouble, care; (pain); trial; affliction, infliction; blow, stroke, burden, load, curse; bitter pill, bitter draught; waters of bitterness.
Painting	Picture, painting, piece, tableau, canvas; oil painting; fresco, cartoon; easel picture, cabinet picture, draught, draft; pencil; drawing, water color drawing, etching, charcoal, pen-and-ink; sketch, outline, study.
Plan	Sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon; rough cast, rough draft, draught copy; copy; proof, revise.
Regression	Noun: traction; drawing; Verb: draught, pull, haul; rake; "a long pull a strong pull and a pull all together"; towage, haulage.
Remedy	Medicine, physic, Galenicals, simples, drug, pharmaceutical, prescription, potion, draught, dose, pill, bolus, injection, infusion, drip, suppository, electuary; linctus, lincture; medicament; pharmacon.
Wind	Noun: wind, draught, flatus, afflatus, efflation, eluvium; air; breath, breath of air; puff, whiff, zephyr; blow, breeze, drift; aura; stream, current, jet stream; undercurrent.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
References	The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Draught Lager (reference) The 2001 Report on Draught Proofing: World Market Segmentation by City (reference) The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Draught Proofing: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A Draught for a Dead Man (reference) A draught of contentment: the story of the Courage Group (reference) Bottle, Draught, & Keg: An Irish Drinking Anthology (reference) Caught in the draught (reference) Draught Animal Power for Production (Aciar Proceedings Series, No 10) (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Draught Animal News (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	The Bitter Draught. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		The able doctor; or America swallowing the bitter draught. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Charlotte Bronte	Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
George Eliot	More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller	One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	No body could think himself injured by the drinking of another man, though he took a good draught, who had a whole river of the same water left him to quench his thirst: and the case of land and water, where there is enough of both, is perfectly the same. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	He does not think of the draught.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	As she still hesitated, being, in fact, in no reasonable state of mind, he took the infant in his arms, and himself administered the draught.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	She drank out of a golden cup, above a hogshead at a draught.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		BKP can accommodate vessels of 10,000 to 12,000 DWT with a maximum of 172 meters in length and the draught of not exceeding 8.2 meters. (references)
		Of the three ports, the Port of Gdansk has the biggest potential for growth, thanks to the availability of ample land for expansion of the port and its maximum draught 15 meters. (references)
		Fifty container berths are slated to be built with an average draught of at least 15 meters in depth, allowing fifth and sixth generation container ships to come and go unhindered. (references)
Economic History	Maldives	The harbor can handle only light vessels with up to a 3-meter draught. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	NECTAR, n. A drink served at banquets of the Olympian deities. The secret of its preparation is lost, but the modern Kentuckians believe that they come pretty near to a knowledge of its chief ingredient. Juno drank a cup of nectar, But the draught did not affect her. Juno drank a cup of rye -- Then she bad herself good-bye. J.G.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Draught" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.10% of the time. "Draught" is used about 422 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	98.1%	414	13,664
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.95%	4	175,879
Noun (proper)	0.95%	4	175,879
Total	100.00%	422	N/A

Expressions using "draught": a draught of beer ♦ aft draught ♦ air draught ♦ Angle of draught ♦ at a draught ♦ at one draught ♦ back draught ♦ beast of draught ♦ beer on draught ♦ bitter draught ♦ Black draught ♦ Blast draught ♦ Down draught ♦ drain one's glass at a draught ♦ draught air ♦ draught along the floor ♦ draught animal ♦ draught beer ♦ Draught box ♦ Draught engine ♦ draught excluder ♦ Draught hook ♦ Draught horse ♦ Draught net ♦ Draught ox ♦ Draught tube ♦ draught unit ♦ Exhaust draught ♦ extreme draught ♦ feel the draught ♦ first draught ♦ Forced draught ♦ induced draught fan ♦ keel draught ♦ loaded draught ♦ maximum permissible operating draught ♦ natural draught ♦ natural draught burner ♦ on draught ♦ pottle draught ♦ serve on draught ♦ sheer draught ♦ sit in a draught ♦ sleeping draught ♦ there's a draught in this room ♦ unequal draught ♦ very deep draught ship. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "draught": draught-and-meat, draught-board, draught-excluder, draught-excluders, draught-flow, draught-free, draught-horse, Draught-house, draught-oxen, draught-play, draught-proof, draught-proofed, draught-proofing, draught-strip, draught-stripping.
	Ending with "draught": anti-back-draught, back-draught, deep-draught, double-draught, down-draught, fan-draught, fire-draught, meat-and-draught, shallow-draught, through-draught, up-draught.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "draught"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rrëkëllisje e gotës (draft), birrë fuçie (draft), bocet (cartoon, draft), farfallë ajrimi, gllënjkë (craving, drachm, draft, drain, dram, drink, drop, gulp, longing, mouthful, nip, peg, pull, sip, smack, sup, swallow, swig, thirst, traction), grup i zgjedhur personash (draft), hartoj në vija të trasha (draft), humbje (blow, come down, damage, defeat, deprivation, disappearance, draft, flight, forfeiture, leak, leakage, losing, losings, loss, losses, Miss, passing, privation, wastage, waste), lëviz (budge, change place, dance, dodge, draft, drive, go along, move, proceed, remove, step, stir), maket (decoy, draft, dummy, model, synopsis), mbledhje e rrjetës (draft), plan (blueprint, conception, delineation, design, device, dodge, draft, idea, map, outline, plan, plane, plat, program, programme, project, Rede, schedule, scheme, survey, syllabus, target), çek (check, cheque, czech, draft), rekrutoj (conscript, draft, enlist, induct, levy, recruit), zgjedh (choose, constitute, cull, disentangle, draft, elect, embrace, opt, pick, pick out, select, single out, solve, take), rrymë ajri (blast, draft), sasi peshku në rrjetë (draft), seleksionim, skicë (cartoon, chart, dash, delineation, design, draft, essay, figure, freehand, outline, plan, profile, rough, sketch), skicoj (design, draft, lay down, plat, rough, sketch, touch off), tërheqje ngarkese (draft), thërras në shërbim ushtarak (draft), thellësi lundrimi (draft), transferoj (assign, circulate, devolve, down-load, draft, move, shift, transfer, translate, trans-ship), urdhërpagesë (draft), verë fuçie (draft), rekrutë të thirrur (draft). (various references)

Arabic		‏غوص (bog, dive, diving, pearl fishery, pitch, plunge, sink, submerge, submergence), ‏سحب (call, dash, disengage, draft, drag, dragging, draw, drawing, drawing out, hang fire, haul, heave, lug, pull, recall, recant, retreat, revoke, revulsion, run, strain, take back, take off, tow, traction, trail, train, tug, withdraw, withdrawal), ‏خطط (adumbrate, blueprint, chart, delimit, delineate, design, limn, line, model, pencil in, plan, program, programme, project, protract, scheme, set out, streak, stripe, trace), ‏جند (camp, commandeer, draft, enlist, enroll, induct, recruit, soldiery), ‏رياح عاتية, ‏رسم (block, charge, daub, depict, depiction, describe, description, design, draft, draw, drawing, etch, etching, exhibit, figure to oneself, formalize, image, impost, lay, lay out, limn, line, mark out, pattern, pencil, picture, plotter, portray, portrayal, protract, scrawl, sketch, tableau, trace, trace over, weave). (various references)

Bulgarian		течение (course, current, drift, flow, flowage, flux, fluxion, lapse, onflow, passage, stream, sweep, tide), план (blueprint, conception, dart, diagram, draft, game, idea, layout, map, plan, plat, plot, program, programme, project, proposal, schedule, schema, scheme, set up, skeleton, sketch, view), правя чертеж (draft), проект (blueprint, contemplation, design, device, draft, project, proposition, scheme), набор (class, composition, draft, frill, furbelow, gathers, intake, matter, pucker, quilling, ruck, ruffle, shirr, skirt, typesetting), наточвам (edge, set), водоизместимост (displacement), глътка (drachm, drag, drain, dram, drink, drop, gulp, lap, mouthful, peg, pharynx, potion, pull, shot, sip, sup, swallow, taste), избирам хора за специална цел (draft), теглене (draft, drag, draw, drawing, haul, haulage, lug, pull, tow, towage, towing, traction, tug), скица (contour, cure, delineation, design, diagram, draft, freehand drawing, object, outline, plan, plat, plot, schema, scheme, scream, skeleton, sketch, study, vignette), течно лекарство, точене на питие, тяга (draft, propulsion, traction), чек (check, cheque, draft), чернова (draft), чертеж (design, diagram, draft, drawing, plan), хвърляне (cast, casting, delivery, fling, heave, hurl, hurling, pitch, precipitation, projection, release, shy, sling, throw, throwing, toss), свиквам войници, контингент (contingent, draft). (various references)

Chinese		草稿 (Draft, Draughts). (various references)

Czech		doušek (dram, gulp, pull, sup, swallow, tiff, tope), tah (bender, draw, drawing, feature, haul, heave, move, stroke, thrust), tažení (campaign, haul), prùvan, ponor, naèrtnout (block out, delineate, design, draft, draw up, outline, touch off, trace), náèrt (delineation, outline, rough copy, roughcast), lok (gulp, mouthful, potion, swig). (various references)

Danish		dybgang (draft), dybgaaende (draft), dybgående (draft), draet (hayl), dessin (drafting, drawing, pattern, plan, sketch, texture), udkast (casting, casting off, cast-off unploughed strip, concept, conception, dead furrow, design, drafting, drawing, earth furrow, finish, minute, open furrow, pattern, plan, project, sketch, sole furrow, texture), trawltraek (haul of a net), traek (attenuating, attenuation, draft, drawing, drawing qualities, drive, haul of a net, hayl, kind of drive, system of drive, traction), træk (pull), tegning (design, drawing), slipvinkel (draft, draw, leave, taper), slipning (draft), mønster (sample, specimen), fangst (capture, catch, prey). (various references)

Dutch		diepgang (draft), vaardiepte (draft), trek (appetite, feature, pull, trait), tocht (excursion, journey, outing, sightseeing trip, trip, voyage), luchtstroom (air flow, air stream, airflow), luchtbeweging (draft), lossingsschuinte (draft, draw, leave, taper), coniciteit (draft, taper, taper ratio). (various references)

Finnish		veto (bet, pull, stroke, traction), syväys (draft). (various references)

French		tirage (drawing, drawing out), courant d'air (draft). (various references)

German		Luftzug (breeze, whiff, wind), Zugluft (draft), zug (breath, campaign, catch, characteristic, course, draft, drag, drawing, draw-string, drifting, expedition, feature, flight, flock, groove, gulp, haul, lineament, migration, mouthful, move, platoon, procession, puff, pull, section, shoal, slide, stop, strain, streak, stroke, swig, team, tension, touch, traction, train, trait, transmigration, truck and trailer, tug, up draft, up-draught, whiff). (various references)

Greek		βύθισμα (draft). (various references)

Hebrew		לשרטט (adumbrate, block, draft, draw, sketch), ל�'ימ�" (dram, nip, nourishment, sip, sipping, swallow, taste, tasting), שקוי (drink, drinking, potion, refreshment), זרם אויר, רוח פרצים (draft). (various references)

Hungarian		vonszolás (drag, dragging, draw, lug), korty (godown, gulp, lap, nip, potion, pull, sip, sup, swig, swill, tiff), huzat (air, air blast, blast, cotton case to cover a blanket, cover, wind), kanalas orvosság, húzás (cut, dash, drag, draw, drawing out, gambit, haul, haulage, hitch, obliteration, ploy, pull, pulling, traction, tug), csapolás (tapping). (various references)

Indonesian		teguk (gulp, suck, sup, swallow), rencana (blueprint, concept, device, plan), penarikan (drawing). (various references)

Italian		tiraggio (draft), spiffero (draft), retata (catch, draft, haul, netful, round up), pescaggio (draft). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"��"ール　 (draft beer, draught beer), �"��"ール (draft beer, draught beer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なま�"ール (draft beer, draught beer). (various references)

Korean		초안 (Draft, Draughts). (various references)

Manx		stroolane, slug (swallow, swig), driaghtyr, correy (addendum, shooting, sowing, spawning), bolgum (dram, mouthful, sip, sup, swallow), blest (blast of wind, gust). (various references)

Norwegian		trekk (feature), slurk (gulp). (various references)

Pig Latin		aughtdray.(various references)

Portuguese		desenho (design, designing, draft, draftsmanship, draughtsmanship, illustration, lithograph, litho-print, picture, plan, print, scale, scheme, tracing), corrente de ar (blast). (various references)

Romanian		duşcã (drain, drink, drop, gulp, plug, sip, snack, swallow, thimbleful), desen (depiction, design, designing, draft, drawing, free hand, pad, pattern, sketch), dozã (admixture, dose, soundbox), sorbiturã (gulp, nip, rouse, sip, snack, sup), schiţã (adumbration, contour, delineation, design, draft, drawing, line, outline, plan, plot, shorter, sketch, sketching), proiect (contemplation, counsel, design, designing, device, draft, idea, plan, project, projection, proposal, scheme, scheming), pescaj, tragere (draw, drawing, gunnery, gunning, pluck, pull, running, shooting, tug), suflare (blow, blowing, breath, breathing, puff, waft, wind), înghiţiturã (drain, dram, drink, go, gulp, pull, sip, sup, swallow, swig), tiraj (circulation, edition), curent (course, current, daily, flow, fluent, fluently, flux, generally, instant, legal, popular, prevailing, prevalent, race, readily, routine, ruling, running, stream, swift, tide, trend, usual, usually), concept (concept, draft, intention, notion), bãuturicã (booze, drink), aruncare a nãvodului, peşti prinşi dintr-o aruncare a nãvodului. (various references)

Russian		сквозняк. (various references)

Scottish		gusgan (a hearty draught). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vidi draft. (various references)

Spanish		corriente de aire (airstream, draft), calado (fretwork, importance). (various references)

Swedish		drag (draft, draw, feature, move, odor, odour, pull, strain, streak, stroke, sweep, touch, trait, tug, vein, whiff), klunk (draft, drink, gulp, hooker, quaff, sip, sup), djupgående (deep, profound). (various references)

Turkish		dama oyunu (checker, Chequer, draughts), görevlendirmek (commission, deploy, draft, draw out, elect, employ, entrust, give work, instruct, place, post, set on, station), çekme (allure, allurement, bearing, draft, draw, drawing, extraction, haul, haulage, hitch, hoist, pluck, pull, pull off, pull out, shrinkage, shrinking, soak, throwback, towage, towaway, towing, traction, withdrawal), ağ çekme, askere almak (conscript, Crimp, draft, enlist, enrol, enroll, induct, levy, recruit), bir fırt, cereyan (circulation, current, draft, flow, tide), çekiş (draft, draw, hitch, lug, pull, traction, tractive, tug), foroz, yudum (drachm, dram, gulp, nip, sip, suck, sup, swallow), hava akımı (current of air, draft), müsvedde (draft, rough, rough copy, roughcast, work sheet), tasarı (bill, design, plan, project, proposal, scheme, set up), tasarı hazırlamak, tasarlamak (architect, blue print, calculate, cast about, cast around, contemplate, contrive, design, devise, draft, fix, forecast, incubate, mean, meditate, plan, premeditate, project, propose, purpose, ruminate, scheme, skeletonize, spin, think out, think up, trace), taslağını çizmek (adumbrate, delineate, draft, draw, draw out, outline, rough in, rough out, roughcast, sketch), taslak (conspectus, design, diagram, draft, draft plan, drawing, outline, plan, rough, roughcast, schema, silhouette, skeleton, sketch, study, tracing, visual), fıçıdan içki çekme. (various references)

Ukrainian		складати план (design, plot), частка (allotment, ante, contingent, crumb, deal, detail, divvy, dose, fraction, lobe, particle, portion, quantity, quota, quotient, shred, slice), тяга (connecting rod, draw, haulage, pull, traction), ковток (drink, gulp, mouthful, potation, pull, sip, swallow, tasting), відбирати (abstract, choose, defraud, denude, deprive, draft, pick over), націджування. (various references)

Vietnamese		mẻ lưới sự uống một hơi, lượng xả nước, lâm v� o cảnh túng quẫn, hơi (rather, remote, slightly, somewhat, unexhausted, vapour), hớp (sip, sup, thimbleful), gặp vận rủi, bản phác thảo (design, draft). (various references)

Welsh		dracht. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 5, Verse 9
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	QamboV gar periescen auton kai pantaV touV sun autw epi th agra twn icquwn h sunelabon
Latin	405	Vulgate	Stupor enim circumdederat eum et omnes qui cum illo erant in captura piscium quam ceperant
Old English	990	West Saxon	And he wundrude and ealle þa ðe mid him wæron on þam were þara fixa þe hi gefengon;
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	For he was on ech side astonyed, and alle that weren with hym, in the takyng of fischis whiche thei token.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Fro me for I am a synfull man. For he was vtterly astonyed and all that were wt him at ye draught of fisshe which they toke:
Jacobean English	1611	King James	For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
Victorian English	1833	Webster	For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:
Basic English	1964	Ogden	For he was full of wonder and so were all those who were with him, at the number of fish which they had taken;
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Luke Chapter 5, Verse 9
Cebuano	Kay siya nahibulong man ugod, ug ang tanan nga mga kauban niya, tungod sa mga isda nga ilang nakuha;
Croatian	Zbog lovine riba što ih uloviše bijaše se zapanjio on i svi koji bijahu s njime,
Danish	Thi en Rædsel var påkommen ham og alle dem, som vare med ham, over den Fiskedræt, som de havde fået;
Dutch	Want verbaasdheid had hem bevangen, en allen, die met hem waren, over de vangst der vissen, die zij gevangen hadden;
Finnish	Sillä kalansaaliin tähden, jonka he olivat saaneet, oli hämmästys vallannut hänet ja kaikki ne, jotka olivat hänen kanssaan,
French	Car l`épouvante l`avait saisi, lui et tous ceux qui étaient avec lui, � cause de la pêche qu`ils avaient faite.
German	Denn es war ihn ein Schrecken angekommen, ihn und alle, die mit ihm waren, über diesen Fischzug, den sie miteinander getan hatten;
Haitian Creole	Yon sèl sezisman te pran Simon ak tout mesye ki te avèk li yo lè yo wè kantite pwason yo te pran.
Hungarian	Mert félelem fogta körül õt és mindazokat, a kik õ vele valának, a halfogás miatt, a melyet fogtak;
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Simon dan semua orang yang bersama dia heran melihat banyaknya ikan yang mereka tangkap.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Sebab tercengang-cenganglah ia beserta dengan orang-orang yang ada bersama-sama dengan dia, karena perolehan ikan yang didapatinya itu;
Italian	Grande stupore infatti aveva preso lui e tutti quelli che erano insieme con lui per la pesca che avevano fatto;
Manx Gaelic	Son ghow eshyn, as ooilley ny va mârish, yindys mooar jeh'n lught dy eeastyn v'ad er ghoaill:
Maori	Mau tonu hoki tona miharo me to ona hoa katoa, ki te haonga o nga ika i haoa nei e ratou:
Norwegian	For redsel kom over ham og alle dem som var med ham, for den fiskedrett som de hadde fått;
Portuguese	Pois, � vista da pesca que haviam feito, o espanto se apoderara dele e de todos os que com ele estavam,
Rumanian	Fiindcq kl apucase spaima, pe el wi pe toyi ceice erau cu el, din pricina pescuirii, pe care o fqcuserq.
Shuar	Semunsha ni írutkamurijiai namakan Timiá Untsurín Wáinkiar ashamkarmiayi. Tuma asa Semunsha Nuní Tímiayi.
Swahili	Simoni pamoja na wenzake wote walishangaa kwa kupata samaki wengi vile.
Swedish	Ty för detta fiskafänges skull hade han och alla som voro med honom betagits av häpnad,
Uma	Simon mololita hewa toe, apa' hi'a pai' hawe'ea doo-na wilingkoroa mpohilo kawori' bau' to nawoko' jala' -ra.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "draught": draughted, draughtier, draughtiest, draughting, draughts, draughtsman, draughtsmen, draughty. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Draught" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daragh, daugh, daught, draght, draug, draughted, draughtt, draut, drawt, driut, droughte, wraught. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "draught" (pronounced dra"ft)
5	d r a" f t	draft, redraft.
4	-r a" f t	craft, graft, Kraft, raft.
3	-a" f t	aft, daft, haft, laughed, shaft, staffed.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-g-h-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: aught, garth, ghaut, guard.
	-3 letters: dart, daut, drag, drat, drug, dura, gaud, gaur, ghat, grad, grat, guar, hard, hart, haut, hurt, rath, ruga, ruth, tahr, thru, thud, thug, trad, trug, turd.
	-4 letters: art, dag, dah, dug, duh, gad, gar, gat, gut, had, hag, hat, hug, hut, rad, rag, rah, rat, rug, rut, tad.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-g-h-r-t-u"
	+1 letter: daughter, draughts, draughty.
	+2 letters: daughters, draughted, fraughted.
	+3 letters: distraught, draughtier, draughting, outcharged, upgathered.
	+4 letters: autographed, draughtiest, draughtsman, draughtsmen, dreadnought, goddaughter, handwrought, slaughtered, unthreading.
	+5 letters: daughterless, distraughtly, dreadnoughts, goddaughters, stepdaughter, turbocharged.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
irish draught horse	22	draught proofing	5
irish draught	17	draught stripping	4
draught	8	automatic draught excluders	4
draught horse	7	draught exclusion	4
draught excluders	7	alamo draught house	3
guinness draught	7	draught excluder	3
draught beer	7	draught game	3
draught emporium flying saucer	5	draught irish tack	2
black draught	5	boiler draught natural	2
irish draught horse for sale	5	draught excluder uk	2
		draught hanovers haus	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Draught

Definition: Draught

Draught

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Combatant

Depth

Food

Multitude

Nonassemblage Dispersion

Pain

Painting

Plan

Regression

Remedy

Wind

Crosswords: Draught

Commercial Usage: Draught

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Books

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Familiar Quotations: Draught

Charlotte Bronte

George Eliot

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Historic Usage: Draught

John Locke

Use in Literature: Draught

Emma

Austen, Jane

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Non-Fiction Usage: Draught

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Usage Frequency: Draught

Expressions: Draught

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Draught

Modern Translation: Draught

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