Draught
Bible Usage:
- draught used 5 times.
- First Reference: 2 Kings 10:27
- Last Reference: Luke 5:9
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: No
Strongs Concordance:
DRAUGHT, noun Draft. [from draw, drag.]
1. The act of drawing; as a horse or ox fit for draught
2. The quality of being drawn; as a cart of plow of easy draught
3. The drawing of liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
4. The quantity of liquor drank at once.
5. The act of delineating, or that which is delineated; a representation by lines, as the figure of a house, a machine, a fort, etc., described on paper.
6. Representation by picture; figure painted, or drawn by the pencil.
7. The act of drawing a net; a sweeping for fish.
8. That which is taken by sweeping with a net; as a draught of fishes. Luke 5:4.
9. The drawing or bending of a bow; the act of shooting with a bow and arrow.
10. The act of drawing men from a military band, army or post; also, the forces drawn; a detachment. [See Draft, which is more generally used.]
11. A sink or drain. Matthew 15:17.
12. An order for the payment of money; a bill of exchange. [See Draft.]
13. The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as a ship of twelve feet draught
14. In England, a small allowance on weighable goods, made by the king to the importer, or by the seller to the buyer, to insure full weight.
15. A sudden attack or drawing on an enemy. [Query.]
16. A writing composed.
17. Draughts, a kind of game resembling chess.
DRAUGHT, verb transitive To draw out; to call forth. [See Draft.]
DRAUGHT-HOOKS, noun Large hooks of iron fixed on the cheeks of a cannon carriage, two on each side, one near the trunnion hole, and the other at the train; used in drawing the gun backwards and forwards by means of draught ropes.
DRAUGHT-HORSE, noun A horse used in drawing a plow, cart or other carriage, as distinguished from a saddle horse.
(2 Kings 10:27). Jehu ordered the temple of Baal to be destroyed, and the place to be converted to the vile use of receiving offal or ordure. (Comp. Matthew 15:17.)
DRAUGHT-HOUSE, noun A house for the reception of filth or waste matter.
DRAUGHTSMAN, noun
1. A man who draws writings or designs or one who is skilled in such drawings.
2. One who drinks drams; a tippler.