draught

(US draft)

  • noun 1 a current of cool air in a room or confined space. 2 a single act of drinking or inhaling. 3 literary or archaic a quantity of a liquid with medicinal properties: a sleeping draught. 4 the depth of water needed to float a particular ship. 5 the drawing in of a fishing net.

  • verb variant spelling of DRAFT.

  • adjective 1 denoting beer served from a cask rather than from a bottle or can. 2 denoting an animal used for pulling heavy loads.

  — ORIGIN Old Norse.

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