draughts
UK/dɹɑːfts//dɹæfts/
draughts is the plural of draught.
draughts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of draught.
Noun
draughts (uncountable)
- 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
- A mild vesicatory.
Meaning of draught
Noun
draught (countable and uncountable, plural draughts)
- A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
- Synonyms:
- checker
- Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
- A mild vesicatory.
- 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
- 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
- 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 […]...
Synonyms of draughts
Forms of draughts
| alternative form (archaic) | drafts |
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Words formed from draughts
Phrases with draughts
Questions about draughts
- What does draughts mean?
- Draughts means 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.
- What is draughts the plural of?
- Draughts is the plural of draught.
- What part of speech is draughts?
- Draughts is a noun.
- How do you pronounce draughts?
- Draughts is pronounced /dɹɑːfts/ (UK).
Words near draughts in the dictionary
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