draughted

Noun

draught (countable and uncountable, plural draughts)

1. (UK) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.

   Synonyms:

   checker

2. (Australia) Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
3. (UK, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
4. (UK, obsolete) 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, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew

   Synonyms:

   draught-house

5. (UK, obsolete) 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, Thomas Browne, chapter V, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 22
6. (UK, obsolete) A sudden attack upon an enemy.
   • drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […]...