Draught vs Praught - What's the difference?
draught | praught |
The action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor.
* Sir W. Temple
The act of drawing, or pulling back.
* Spenser
That which is drawn.
* L'Estrange
That which draws, such as a team of oxen or horses.
Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
* Mortimer
The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation; a draft.
* Macaulay
* South
A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle).
* Charles Dickens
(maritime) The depth below the water line to the bottom of a vessel's hull.
An amount of liquid that is drunk in one swallow.
* 1851 ,
*:“Drink and pass!” he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the nearest seaman. “The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short draughts —long swallows, men; ’tis hot as Satan’s hoof.
The act of drawing in a net for fish.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Luke V:
* Sir M. Hale
(British) A game piece used in the game of draughts.
(Australia) A type of beer, brewed using a top-fermenting yeast; ale.
(UK, Ireland) Beer drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
(dated) A dose of medicine in liquid form.
* 1919 ,
(medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
(obsolete) A privy.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XV:
* 1623 , William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens :
(obsolete) A drawing or picture.
* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.22:
(obsolete) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
* Spenser
(military) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft.
(military) The force drawn; a detachment; a draft.
To draw out; to call forth. See draft.
To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
* Sir Walter Scott
To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
(Webster 1913)
(nonstandard) (preach)
* 1870 Amos Keeter, “The Lovers,” in Vol. 1 No. 27. [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10035/10035-h/10035-h.htm]
* 1996-05-22 The Anglican Mailing List [http://memoriam.anglicansonline.org/mamawolf/msg00352.html]
* 2000-01-30 Larne Parish Homily Archive [http://www.briantumelty.dnet.co.uk/homily_pubs/B04_Ord_00.htm]
* 2000-11-18' ''CHRIST AND CUPID: a sermon '''praught by Richard Major in the church of St Mark, Florence. [subtitle] [http://www.ascensionandsaintagnes.org/sermonarchive/major/2000/sermon18xi00.htm]
* 2002-08-16 The Church of Ireland Gazette Online [http://gazette.ireland.anglican.org/160802/panorama160802.htm]
* 2004-05 Beautful Feet International Ministries [http://www.bfiministries.org/newsletter.April.May04.htm]
* 2004-06-01 Ian McLeod's Confusticated World [http://ianmcleod.blogspot.com/2004_06_01_ianmcleod_archive.html]
* 2005-09-19 Xander: And the Army is disciplined... [http://xander.lifewithchrist.org/permalink/15985]
As verbs the difference between draught and praught
is that draught is to draw out; to call forth. See {{term|draft|lang=en}} while praught is past tense of preach.As a noun draught
is the action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor.draught
English
Alternative forms
* draft (US)Noun
(en noun)- A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement.
- She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught .
- He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught .
- The Hertfordshire wheel plough is of the easiest draught .
- (Dryden)
- A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member.
- No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye.
- He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for.
- She took a deep draught from the bottle of water.
- he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught .
- Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left.
- Finally I gave him a draught , and he sank into uneasy slumber.
- to apply draughts to the feet
- 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 ?
- Rid me these Villaines from your companies; / Hang them, or stab them, drowne them in a draught , / Confound them by some course, and come to me, / Ile giue you Gold enough.
- 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.
- drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you
Synonyms
* (game) checkers * (mouthful of liquid) swigVerb
(en verb)- (Addison)
- The Parliament so often draughted and drained.
praught
English
Verb
(head)- SALLY SALTER, she was a young teacher, who taught,
- And her friend, CHARLEY CHURCH, was a preacher, who praught ;
- Though his enemies called him a screecher, who scraught.
- [...] I don't remember the earnest soul who praught it [...]
- They praught in the synagogue every Sabbath, week in, week out.
- [...] including, by the way, York Minster where in 1999 he praught at the consecration of a new area bishop.
- So, I ‘praught ’ at this group (median age of late 60’s-70’s J) just like they were teenagers [...]
- Yesterday our new preacher praught a very good lesson, in which he stated [...]
- I went to Balga Corps in the morning, then praught at a youth meeting at Morley Corps in the evening.
