Noun

(en noun)

A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams , the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01, author=Nancy Langston, volume=101, issue=1, page=59

, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= The Fraught History of a Watery World , passage=European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams , channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.}}

A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).

Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=10 citation , passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 21, author=Helen Pidd

, title=Europeans migrate south as continent drifts deeper into crisis, work=the Guardian citation , passage=A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.}}

(sciences) An umbrella term for all moving waters.

(computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.

(UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.

Noun

(en noun)

The action or an act of pulling something along, especially a beast of burden, vehicle or tractor.

* Sir W. Temple

A general custom of using oxen for all sort of draught would be, perhaps, the greatest improvement.

The act of drawing, or pulling back.

* Spenser

She sent an arrow forth with mighty draught .

That which is drawn.

* L'Estrange

He laid down his pipe, and cast his net, which brought him a very great draught .

That which draws, such as a team of oxen or horses.

Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.

* Mortimer

The Hertfordshire wheel plough is of the easiest draught .

The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.

(Dryden)

A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation; a draft.

* Macaulay

A draught of a Toleration Act was offered to the Parliament by a private member.

* South

No picture or draught of these things from the report of the eye.

A current of air (usually coming into a room or vehicle).

* Charles Dickens

He preferred to go and sit upon the stairs, in a strong draught of air, until he was again sent for.

(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.

She took a deep draught from the bottle of water.

* 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:

he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught .

* Sir M. Hale

Upon the draught of a pond, not one fish was left.

(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 ,

Finally I gave him a draught , and he sank into uneasy slumber.

(medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.

to apply draughts to the feet

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:

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 ?

* 1623 , William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens :

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.

(obsolete) A drawing or picture.

* 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , V.22:

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.

(obsolete) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.

* Spenser

drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you

(military) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft.

(military) The force drawn; a detachment; a draft.