draught

noun20

1. •
   A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
2. •
   The draw through a flue of gasses or smoke resulting from a combustion process.
3. •
   Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
4. •
   An act of drinking.
5. •
   The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.

   • She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.
6. •
   A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
7. •
   (UK) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
8. •
   Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.

   • I'd rather have a fresh, cheap draft beer.
9. •
   Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.

   • A Clydesdale is a draft horse.
10. •
    The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
11. •
    (Australia) Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
12. •
    The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
13. •
    (UK, no longer used) A quantity that is requisitioned or drawn out from a larger population.

    • An earlier draft of horses for the 4th Light Dragoons, however,was very different. — 1993
14. •
    (no longer used) Any picture or drawing.

    • And therefore, for the whole process, and full representation, there must be more than one draught; the one representing him in station, the other in session, another in genuflexion. — 1650
15. •
    (no longer used) The action or an act (especially of a beast of burden or vehicle) of pulling something along or back.
16. •
    (no longer used) That which is drawn in; a catch; a haul.

    • He cast his net, which brought him a very great draft.
17. •
    (no longer used) The act of drawing in a net for fish.
18. •
    (no longer used) A sudden attack upon an enemy.

    • drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you — 1596
19. •
    (no longer used) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.

    • Then sayde Jesus: are ye yett withoute understondinge? perceave ye not, that whatsoever goeth in at the mouth, descendeth doune into the bely, and ys cast out into the draught? — 1526
20. •
    (no longer used) A mild vesicatory.