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    Draught

    Definitions

    1 | noun | a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg 2 | noun | a large and hurried swallow 3 | noun | a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle) 4 | noun | the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded) 5 | noun | a dose of liquid medicine 6 | noun | the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling 7 | verb | make a blueprint of (7 meanings)

    Pronunciation

    dr'aft (IPA: drˈæft)

    Hyphenation

    draught (no hyphenation) (7 letters | 1 syllable)

    First known use in English

    1205 (High Middle ages) (820 years ago)

    Word origin

    Old English

    Word frequency history

    American spelling

    draft

    Inflected forms

    draughts | draughted | draughting

    Synonyms

    potation | tipple | gulp | swig | drawing | blueprint (total: 6)

    Narrower terms

    quaff | downdraft | updraft

    Broader terms

    drink | deglutition | swallow | air current | current of air | wind | deepness | depth | dosage | dose | pull | pulling | design | plan (total: 14)

    Rhymes

    craft | daft | draft | graft | haft | kraft | laughed | raft | redraft | shaft | staffed (total: 11) (based on typical American pronunciation)

    Homophone

    draft

    Lexically close words

    drought | fraught

    Anagrams

    (none among common words)

    Phrases

    draught beer | draught horse | shallow-draught | sleeping draught

    Translations

    Japanese: | 一口 (common noun) | 下書 (common noun) | 原案 (common noun) | 吃水 (common noun) | 喫水 (common noun) | 底本 (common noun) | 手形 (common noun) | 振出 (common noun) | 文案 (common noun) | 案文 (common noun) | 立案 (common noun) | 素案 (common noun) | 舟脚 (common noun) | 舟足 (common noun) | 船脚 (common noun) | 船足 (common noun) | 草案 (common noun) | 草稿 (common noun) | ひと口 (common noun) | 下書き (common noun) | 振り出 (common noun) | 振出し (common noun) | 隙間風 (common noun) | すきま風 (common noun) | 振り出し (common noun) | 為替手形 (common noun)

    Other notable uses

    draught.com | draught.org | draught.info | draught.biz

    Crossword puzzle clue

    Beer serving in a pub (based on all New York Times crossword puzzles 1994 to 2009)

    Scrabble score

    12 (International English) | 12 (North American English)

    Phone keypad digits

    (???) 372-8448

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