1. draughts - Noun
2. draughts - Verb
A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).
A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain And drinking largely sobers us again. Alexander Pope
Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either. John Gay
I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy. John Burroughs
The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess. Edgar Allan Poe
Quite a few of us get pissed with liver crippling draughts of prison hooch, that last vestige of herbal medicine still available to cons. Dennis Nilsen
Everything from the subsequent fall in fortune of the Imperial court, the rise of the samurai powers, draughts and internal unrests were blamed on his haunting. Source: Internet