15 Words to use with draught

The men in the second rank did not stand immediately behind those in the first rank, but the files were alternate, like the position of the men on a draught-board.

How'm I to git grub out to my claim without a dog?" "We are offerin' you a couple o' capital draught dogs.

Pritchard, indeed, was a very honest man; and had been for a generation in the family; and knew of the estates, and the condition of them, better than either my Lord or myself: but Pritchard, like other old men, was diffident and slow; and valued himself upon his skill as a draughts-man; and, for the sake of the paltry reputation, must have all his forms preserved, were an imperial crown to depend upon his dispatch.

One day he would return; the next, he would swallow the bitter draught fate had in store for him.

The Belgian field artillery was horsed magnificently: the sturdy, hardy animals native to Luxembourg and the Ardennes making admirable material for gun-teams, while the great Belgian draught-horses could scarcely have been improved upon for the army's heavier work.

[Footnote S: See Burns's 'Postscript' to his 'Cry and Prayer': And when he fa's, His latest draught o' breathin' leaves him In faint huzzas.

A special element of excitement was added by the presence of a dozen big bulls which were to be turned into draught-oxen.

It is a desolate place at the best of times, and when there is any wind blowing, it is like camping in a draught-pipe.

WOOD (Mrs.), draught porter.

That is due to the fact that cows are sacred and oxen are so valuable for draught purposes.

Judging from all I could learn it is probable a light-draught steamboat could navigate nearly all of Stewart Iver and its tributaries.

More often than not it is met with in the feet of heavy draught animals, and is there caused by the calkin, either when being violently backed or suddenly turned round.

The motor launches were employed for anti-submarine work, fitted with hydrophones, and worked in company with drifters and torpedo-boat destroyers, or in minesweeping in areas in which their light draught rendered it advantageous and safer to employ them instead of heavier draught vessels to locate minefields, and in the Dover area they were largely used to work smoke screens for operations on the Belgian coast.

The "part-share contract" is much the same in its operative effects, the landlord having to supply the farmer with agricultural implements and draught-cattle, and often in addition supplying the whole family with clothing and provisions; and, on division of the earnings, the farmer is unable to cover his debt.

[Fr.]; rough cast, rough draft, draught copy; copy; proof, revise.

15 Words to use with  draught