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draught

[ draft, drahft ]

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noun

draughts, (used with a singular verb) British. the game of checkers.
Chiefly British. draft ( defs 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 38 ).

verb (used with object)

Chiefly British. draft ( defs 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 ).

verb (used without object)

Chiefly British. draft ( def 33 ).

adjective

Chiefly British. draft ( defs 35, 36, 37 ).

draught

/ ��ɑː�ڳ� /

noun

a current of air, esp one intruding into an enclosed space
1. the act of pulling a load, as by a vehicle or animal
2. ( as modifier )
  a draught horse
the load or quantity drawn
a portion of liquid to be drunk, esp a dose of medicine
the act or an instance of drinking; a gulp or swallow
the act or process of drawing air, smoke, etc, into the lungs
the amount of air, smoke, etc, inhaled in one breath
1. beer, wine, etc, stored in bulk, esp in a cask, as opposed to being bottled
2. ( as modifier )
  draught beer
3. drawn from a cask or keg
Also calleddraughtsman any one of the 12 flat thick discs used by each player in the game of draughts US and Canadian equivalentchecker
the depth of a loaded vessel in the water, taken from the level of the waterline to the lowest point of the hull
feel the draught
to be short of money

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Pronunciation Note

Draught is a variant spelling of draft and is normally pronounced the same way, as [draft] or [drahft] or with a vowel somewhere between [a] and [ah]. A pronunciation [drawt] is sometimes heard for draught, perhaps because -aught is frequently pronounced [-awt] elsewhere, as in caught and taught.

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Derived Forms

ˈ��ܲ��ٱ��, noun

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Other Word Forms

��ܲ��İ� noun
�ܲ�d��·��ܲ�� noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of draught¹

First recorded in 1150–1200; Middle English draht (cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Old Norse ��ٳٰ� ); akin to Old English dragan “to plug, drag, draw,” ��ō�� “a pull (at the oars)”; draw

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Word History and Origins

Origin of draught¹

C14: probably from Old Norse drahtr, of Germanic origin; related to draw

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The normally bustling border crossing of Kasumulu remained noticeably quieter than usual with drivers seen relaxing in the shade of trees, while others played draughts or lounged in the back of their lorries.

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Green thinks the biggest reason for that decrease is the recent use of a 'draught excluder', when a player lies behind the wall to prevent the ball going underneath it.

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Last year, the British Beer and Pub Association revealed that landlords make 12p profit per pint, with the average price of a pint of draught lager costing £4.79, according to the Office for National Statistics.

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In 2022, the company said it would review data centres' water use as it prepared to introduce a hosepipe ban during a summer draught.

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The 1.7% tax cut on the production of draught alcohol announced in the Budget last year is the first alcohol duty cut in a decade.

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