draught

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English draught, draght, draȝt, from Old English *dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *draganą; equivalent to draw +‎ -t. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɹɑːft/ Rhymes: -ɑːft (US) IPA(key): /dɹæft/ Rhymes: -æft Homophone: draft (common in the 16–18th centuries, now nonstandard) IPA(key): /dɹɔt/ === Noun === draught (countable and uncountable, plural draughts) (British spelling) Alternative form of draft in some of its senses. Sense 1 of draft: Senses 17, 18 of draft: Senses 3, 4 of draft: Sense 5 of draft: Senses 4, 5 of draft: 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter iii: Much as I wish that I had not to write this chapter, I know that I shall have to swallow many such bitter draughts in the course of this narrative. And I cannot do otherwise, if I claim to be a worshipper of Truth. […] Sense 7 of draft: Sense 1 of draft: (UK) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts. (Australia) Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast. (UK, medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. (UK, obsolete) Any picture or drawing. (UK, obsolete) A sudden attack upon an enemy. ==== Synonyms ==== (outhouse): draught-house; see also Thesaurus:outhouse (game piece): checker (used in checkers) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== draw ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === draught (not comparable) (British spelling) Alternative spelling of draft === Verb === draught (third-person singular simple present draughts, present participle draughting, simple past and past participle draughted) (British spelling) Alternative spelling of draft. ==== Usage notes ==== There are senses used in American English which do not apply in British English. === References === “draught”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.. == Middle English == === Alternative forms === draght, draht, draucht, draughte, drauht === Etymology === From Old English dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, equivalent to drawen +‎ -th. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /drau̯xt/ === Noun === draught (plural draughtes) draught ==== Descendants ==== English: draught Scots: draucht Yola: draught, draft ==== References ==== “draught, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. == Yola == === Alternative forms === draft === Etymology === From Middle English draught, draght, from Old English dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /drɑːxt/, /draft/ === Noun === draught A drawing stroke with a weapon. === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36