draughts

Speech parts

1. draughts - Noun

2. draughts - Verb

Meaning

A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).

A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.

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Examples

A 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

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