drafts

Noun

draft (countable and uncountable, plural drafts)

1. (US) A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
2. (US) The draw through a flue of gasses or smoke resulting from a combustion process.
3. (US) An act of drinking.
4. (US) The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
   • to drink at a draft

   Synonyms:

   swig

5. (US) A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
6. (US) Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
   • From 1767 to 1774 no pale wine was bottled but for immediate use; only draft wine of all kinds was used in the principal taverns, and it was often very bad, not from tricks of the vintners, but from bad management.1863, Thomas George Shaw, Wine, the Vine, and the Cellar, page 152

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Noun

draughts (uncountable)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, board games) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.

   Synonyms:

   checkers

2. A mild vesicatory.