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Draft   /dræft/   Listen
noun
Draft  n.  
1.
The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught. "Everything available for draft burden."
2.
(Mil.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted. "Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year."
3.
An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange. "I thought it most prudent to defer the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan."
4.
An allowance or deduction made from the gross weight of goods.
5.
A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.
6.
The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.
7.
(Masonry)
(a)
A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.
(b)
A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.
8.
(Milling) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.
9.
(Naut.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.
10.
A current of air. Same as Draught.
11.
A quantity of liquid poured out for drinking; a dose.
12.
The act of drawing a quantity of liquid from a large container; also, the quantity of liquid so drawn.
13.
A device for regulating the flow of gases in a chimney, stovepipe, fireplace, etc.; as, to close the chimney draft. It is usually a flat plate of the same internal dimensions as the flue, which can be rotated to be parallel to or perpendicular to the current of gases.


verb
Draft  v. t.  (past & past part. drafted; pres. part. drafting)  
1.
To draw the outline of; to delineate.
2.
To compose and write; as, to draft a memorial.
3.
To draw from a military band or post, or from any district, company, or society; to detach; to select; especially, to compulsorily select and induct members of a population to serve in the armed forces. "HotLips Houlihan: How did a degenerate person like him achieve such a position of responsibility in the army? Radar: He was drafted." "Some royal seminary in Upper Egypt, from whence they drafted novices to supply their colleges and temples."
4.
To transfer by draft. "All her rents been drafted to London."


adjective
Draft  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to, or used for, drawing or pulling (as vehicles, loads, etc.). Same as Draught; as, a draft horse.
2.
Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air. Same as Draught. Note: The forms draft and draught, in the senses above-given, are both in approved use.
Draft box, Draft engine, Draft horse, Draft net, Draft ox, Draft tube. Same as Draught box, Draught engine, etc. See under Draught.





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"Draft" Quotes from Famous Books



... woman," said one of the clerks to his friend. "A widow, too! Chance for you, Tom," returned the other; and, presently, from out the sacred presence came another clerk with a request for "a draft on Sydney for three thousand, less premium", and bearing a cheque signed "Sarah Carr" for L200, which he "took" in notes, ...
— For the Term of His Natural Life • Marcus Clarke
... said Roden, at length. "As soon as he comes up we will draft them off in batches of ten, and pack them into the omnibuses. The luggage can follow. Ah! Here comes Von Holzen. You don't know him, ...
— Roden's Corner • Henry Seton Merriman
... beloved friend Samuel Emlen, intended to go to London, and had taken a passage in the cabin of the ship called Mary and Elizabeth; and I, feeling a draft in my mind towards the steerage of the same ship, went and opened to Samuel the feeling I had concerning it. My beloved friend wept when I spake to him; and he offering to go with me, we went on board, first into the ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol X • Various
... presenting itself in this emergency, and men of a very different stamp from those drawn into the ranks in the later years of the war by enormous bounties. It is reasonable to think that pride in the success of the county's effort was a factor in stimulating enlistments; announcement that a draft would be resorted to later was doubtless another. Just at this time, also, the return from a year's captivity in the South of the Rev. Hiram Eddy of Winsted, who had been made prisoner at Bull Run, furnished a powerful advocate to the cause; night ...
— The County Regiment • Dudley Landon Vaill
... and he began on a sudden to hate her with a fervour much more genuine than that of his love had been. It was a feeble, puny grimace of love, and paltering with passion. After Mr. Pope had sent off one of his fine compositions to Lady Mary, he made a second draft from the rough copy, and favoured some other friend with it. He was so charmed with the letter of Gay's, that I have just quoted, that he had copied that and amended it, and sent it to Lady Mary as his own. A gentleman who writes letters a deux fins, and after having poured ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray


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