draught

Meanings

Noun

• Alternative of draft in its various senses.
• A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
• Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
• A mild vesicatory.
• An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
• Any picture or drawing.
• A sudden attack upon an enemy.

Verb

• Alternate spelling of draft

Related

Similar words

• checker (used in checkers)

Origin

• From Middle English draught, from Old English dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *draganą; equivalent to draw + -t.