Definitions
the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling
Word origin
A phonetic spelling of draught (compare laughter), from Middle English draught, draght (“that which is pulled; that which is drawn up, a design”), from Old English *dreaht, *dræht, from Proto-West Germanic *drahti, *drahtu, from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz (“a pulling, drawing”). Cognate with Dutch dracht, German Tracht, Icelandic dráttur. By surface analysis, draw + -t.
Used in a sentence
“to drink at a draft”
“She took a deep draft from the bottle of water.”
“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.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Rough written version”5 letters
02“Early version of writing”5 letters
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