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The sneaky breeze that makes your house feel haunted and your heating bill feel personal.
means A current of cool air felt indoors (chiefly British spelling); also a drink pulled from a cask, a single act of drinking, or a quantity of liquid medicine.
from From Old English *dragan*, "to draw or pull" — the same root behind "draw" itself. A draught is literally something drawn: air drawn through a gap, beer drawn from a barrel, a breath drawn down in one swallow. The British kept the older, draggier spelling while American English smoothed it into "draft." Related across the Germanic languages to words like German *Tracht* and Dutch *dracht*, all leaning on that ancient sense of dragging and hauling.
- old spelling
- Same word as draft, just dressed fancier
- beer term
- Means pulled from a cask, not bottled
- ship sense
- How deep a hull sits in water
- animal duty
- Draught horses haul loads, not riders
- chess cousin
- Draughts is checkers across the Atlantic
dust bowl 1930s — severe drought across american great plains killing crops and displacing 2.5 million people