Word Finder - draught

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A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.

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Draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.

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An act of drinking.

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The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.

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She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.

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A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.)

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Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.

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Depth of water needed to float a ship; depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull; depth of water drawn by a vessel.

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An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.

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His first drafts were better than most authors' final products.

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A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.

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A cheque, an order for money to be paid.

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Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.

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He left the country to avoid the draft.

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A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.

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A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.

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The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.

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The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.

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(possibly obsolete) The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something along or back.

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using oxen for draft   shot forth an arrow with a mighty draft

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(possibly obsolete) The act of drawing in a net for fish.

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(possibly obsolete) That which is drawn in; a catch, a haul.

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he cast his net, which brought him a very great draft

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A quantity that is requisitioned or drawn out from a larger population.

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To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.

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To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

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To write a law.

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To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.

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He was drafted during the Vietnam War.

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To select someone (or something) for a particular role or purpose.

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There was a campaign to draft Smith to run for President.

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To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.

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The calves were drafted from the cows.

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To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.

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After his last year of college football, he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins.

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To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.

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To draw out; to call forth.

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To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.

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A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.

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Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.

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A mild vesicatory.

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An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

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Any picture or drawing.

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A sudden attack upon an enemy.

The native Sardinian cattle are small, but make good draught oxen.

Any noise, a draught of air or a touch may cause a convulsion.

The river is navigable for steamers of light draught.

Its most important branch is the Red Lake River, and both are navigable for vessels of light draught at high water.

Heavy Live draught horses are reared in Ontario, and to a less stock.

He is adapted alike for the plough, for heavy draught, and for slow saddle work.

He was poisoned at Caesarea, either the wife of Louis or the mother of the king of Jerusalem suggesting the draught.

It can hardly be expected that zebras and bontequaggas fresh from their native mountains and plains can be brought into competition as beasts of burden and draught with horses and asses, whose useful qualities have been augmented by the training of thousands of generations of progenitors.

A limit is reached to the rate of combustion when the draught becomes strong.

Others are navigable only for short distances by steamers of light draught.

In the wheeled plough some of the weight and downward pull due to its action on the ground is taken by the wheels; the sliding friction is thus to some extent converted into a rolling friction, and the draught is correspondingly diminished.

Naples, in writing the little treatise (afterwards included in the Characteristics) entitled A Notion of the Historical Draught or Tablature of the Judgment of Hercules, and the letter concerning Design.

Craig, after some weeks had passed, did so, and Neper then showed him a rude draught of what he called Canon mirabilis logarithmorum.

Planting late in spring should, as far as possible, be avoided, for the buds then begin to awaken into active life, and the draught upon the roots becomes great.

They require more draught than coke fires, but care must be taken not to give too much, as excessive heat is likely to melt or soften the fire-bars.

Draught is regulated in the ashpit by opening or closing the bottom door of the furnace and by the damper on the smoke shaft.

There is abundant pasturage on which excellent cattle are reared; and in some districts buffaloes are bred for draught purposes.

Vessels drawing 9 or 10 feet come up to the town, but ships of greater draught are laden and discharged at its harbour (Bornholm, on Hyrvinsala Island), which is entered yearly by from 700 to 800 ships, of about 200,000 tons.

On the other hand, the great tawny draught cattle of Spain seem to indicate mixture with a different stock, the horns having a double curvature, quite different from the simple one of the aurochs type.

Extensive quays afford accommodation for vessels of deep draught, and the trade with the Dutch cities and with London has been thereby greatly enhanced.

There is a good and remunerative demand for Shire geldings for use as draught horses in towns.

A blend of the Shire and Clydesdale strains of the British rough-legged draught horse (virtually sections of the same breed) is a better animal than either of the parents.

To the period of this sojourn in Holland must probably be referred the surreptitious impression or publication of an imperfect edition of the Inquiry concerning Virtue, from a rough draught, sketched when he was only twenty years of age.

A rural area in southern China called the Guangdong Province was experiencing draught and famine at the end of the 19th century, and vast numbers of Chinese immigrants made their way to California.

The three principal towns are on the northern coast and possess small harbours suitable for vessels of light draught.

The reindeer of northern Siberia call also for special notice; they are used for the saddle as well as for draught.

The port of Pernambuco, or Recife, is formed by a stone reef lying across the entrance to a shallow bay at the mouth of two small rivers, Beberibe and Capibaribe, and is accessible to steamers of medium draught.

The " Passglas," another popular drinking-glass, is cylindrical in form and marked with horizontal rings of glass, placed at regular intervals, to indicate the quantity of liquor to be taken at a draught.

Cheeses are made from the milk of both sheep and goats; but cattle are mostly bred for export or draught purposes.

Besides the frontier streams on the north and west, the only river of any importance for navigation is the Morava, which is navigable by steamers of light draught as high as Chupriya, about 60 m.

He was usually represented as one-eyed, having left an eye in pawn that he might purchase a draught from Mimir's well.

Lincolnshire has long been famous for a fine breed of horses both for the saddle and draught.

The Shire is the largest of draught horses, the stallion commonly attaining a height of 17 to 17.3 hands.

With its symmetry, activity, strength and endurance the Clydesdale is easily broken to harness, and makes an excellent draught horse.

The mouth of the river is partly blocked by a sandy bar; only ships of light draught can enter, while those of greater burden are accommodated at the harbour of Leixoes, an artificial basin constructed about 3 m.

Even under the most advantageous application, that of evaporation of water in a steam boiler where the gases of the fire have to travel through a great length of flues bounded by thin iron surfaces of great heat-absorbing capacity, the temperature of the current at the chimney is generally much above that required to maintain an active draught in the fireplace; and other tubes containing water, often in considerable numbers, forming the so-called fuel economizers, may often be interposed between the boiler and the chimney with marked advantage as regards saving of fuel.

The reports which they furnish help to determine the distribution of the moneys dispensed by the state in the form of siibventions to agriculturar l The chief breeds of horses are the Boulonnais (heavy draught).

The horse of Cambodia is only from 1 i to 1 2 hands in height, but is strong and capable of great endurance; the buffalo is the chief draught animal.

The Afrikander cattle, powerful draught animals, large horned, bony and giving little milk, are being crossed with other stock.

Driving with long reins in the field should precede the fastening of ropes to the collar, as it accustoms the animal to the pressure on the shoulders of the draught, later to be experienced in the yoke.

You can go all out with draught beer and a margarita machine, or keep it simple with a stocked minifridge.

The bar at the entrance to this river is exceptionally dangerous, and the port is frequented only by coasting vessels of light draught.

The river is navigable for large steamers up to the city, and above it by vessels of lighter draught.

They were often Vehkles constructed of rich lacquer; the curtains suspended in front were of the finest bamboo workmanship, with thick cords and tassels of plaited silk, and the draught animal, an ox of handsome proportions, was brilliantly caparisoned.

The latter must be of a fairly good height, according to circumstances, to secure a good draught.

All the outlet channels of the river are obstructed by bars built up by the strong current along the Atlantic coast, and only vessels of light draught can enter.

According to him the visit to Capernaum and the healing of the wife's mother preceded the call of Peter, and this was associated with a tradition of a miraculous draught of fishes.

With regard to the narrative of the miraculous draught of fishes, the matter is more complicated.

An account of it is preserved in John xxi., but it is here connected - probably wrongly - with a miraculous draught of fishes, just as the account of his call is in Luke.

The average price was about 51 for field artillery draught horses, 65 for heavy draught horses, and 46 for riding horses.