(n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.
(n.) The drawing of a bowstring.
(n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.
(n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.
(n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.
(n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)
(n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.
(n.) That which is drawn
(n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.
(n.) The force drawn; a detachment; -- in this sense usually written draft.
(n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.
(n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.
(n.) An order for the payment of money; -- in this sense almost always written draft.
(n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.
(n.) That which draws
(n.) A team of oxen or horses.
(n.) A sink or drain; a privy.
(n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.
(n.) Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.
(n.) 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.
(n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.
(n.) A move, as at chess or checkers.
(n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.
(n.) See Draft, n., 7.
(a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.
(a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.
(a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.
(a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; -- said of ale, cider, and the like.
(v. t.) To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.
(v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing.
(v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to investigate the effect of food intake on the amount of fluid ingested and the intervals between draughts and the effect of fluid intake on the amount of food ingested and the intervals between meals, the eating, drinking, and core temperature of 15 adult male rats were continuously monitored for 14 days.
(2) Lester Young often commented that “I feel a draught” when he sensed a racist atmosphere, and his personality became radically more insular after the abuse he suffered in the US army in 1945.
(3) There's a vintage woodburing stove, no TV, a seafood menu rich in local produce, including Glenbeigh oysters, and a top-notch brew on draught in Tom Crean's lager, the sole beer made by Dingle Brewing Company (dinglebrewingcompany.com).
(4) The brace has strong anti-bending strength and draught force.
(5) So they got rid of the car, installed low-energy bulbs , insulation and draught-proofing, and a year-and-a-half ago they bought a wood-burning stove .
(6) The results of a series of cold challenges to the hand, repeated on a normal subject in a temperature-controlled room and in other parts of a rheumatology ward, show very good reproducibility outside the temperature-controlled room, provided that the immediate environment is draught-free.
(7) In general, though, the apparent harmony between government policy and Ofsted's work may be traceable to a much simpler matter of mindset: its head, Michael Wilshaw, is the former head of the Mossbourne academy in Hackney, and prone to sound as if he has imbibed a huge draught of whatever the education secretary, Michael Gove, is drinking.
(8) But that may be the least of Ukip’s woes as it sups the bitter draught of victory.
(9) Relief from the complaints is improved by physiotherapy and by avoiding the detrimental influence of bad posture, nervous stress, air draughts, cold chills etc.
(10) Muscle fibre recruitment was investigated during draught loaded exercise by studying glycogen depletion patterns from histochemical stains of muscle biopsies from the gluteus and semitendinosus muscles.
(11) The increase in metabolic requirements during the three levels of draught exercise was associated with increases in arterial hemoglobin concentration and oxygen content of blood.
(12) Draught-free homes are comfortable at lower temperatures, so you'll be able to turn down your thermostat, which could save another £55 a year.
(13) In particular, connections between population and presence of some fish species draughted has been studied, considering ecological, reproductive and trophic habits of fishes, in order to value relations between the influence these populations exert on fishing and biological characteristics of the quantitatively more meaningful fish species.
(14) The same gift of the gab that a good hotel manager deploys to schmooze an irate guest complaining about draughts made the difference between life and death; he cajoled and coaxed, flattered and deceived, lied and bribed.
(15) It was concluded that high oxidative capacity is of importance both for fast trotting and for draught work.
(16) The major clinical conditions encountered were those which adversely affect the performance of draught animals and those causing infertility.
(17) The role of camels in transport and draught is discussed.
(18) A cart equipped with an odometer, for measuring distance, and a hydraulic dynamometer, for measuring draught force, was used.
(19) Cask beer aside, Fringe majors on continental and Belgian bottles, with the likes of Duvel, Leffe and Timmerman's on draught, as well as real perries and ciders.
(20) Draught whisky and whisky in cans – available in vending machines in Japan to consumers with an ID smartcard to prove their age – are still a long way off in the west.
Keg
Definition:
(n.) A small cask or barrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: supplied Nauru: a powder keg waiting to ignite All the signs suggest a moment of crisis is approaching on Nauru .
(2) But more rounded beer fans will find plenty to enjoy in its vast array of bottles (a bit bewildering, as there was no menu on a recent visit) and 13 keg lines.
(3) On the front line in Brazil’s war on Zika: ‘I felt I was in a horror movie’ Read more In global health security terms, this is a potential powder keg.
(4) Eight cask pumps showcase Leeds beers (try the pale or the dark mild, Midnight Bell) and four guests, with keg lines, such as a craft lager from York micro Hop Studio, adding interest.
(5) Taiwan is another powder keg that could be ignited by widening US-China confrontation.
(6) Across eight cask pumps, seven keg lines and three hand-pulled ciders, the Rook runs the gamut from exotic European imports (Opat's self-explanatory orange and mandarin Czech pils) to beers from lesser-spotted UK micros, such as Grafters and Jurassic Brewhouse.
(7) The molecule resembles a keg 105 A along the 4-fold axis and 132 A in diameter at the widest point of the keg.
(8) The brain tumor models were produced in syngeneic Wister-King-Aptekman male rats with stereotaxic inoculation of ethylnitrosourea-induced glioma cells (KEG-1).
(9) Quality beers are now being produced in kegs, bottles and even cans, helping craft brewers offset the rapid decline of high street pubs.
(10) Many craft beers, including BrewDog’s, do not qualify as real ale under Camra’s strict criteria simply because, although some are served from casks, most come in kegs, bottles and cans, and with added CO2.
(11) Long before Brewdog opened, Port Street was already turning Mancunians on to explosively hoppy US imports, edgy craft keg beers and impoverishing those who couldn't resist that second bottle of Alesmith Speedway Stout (750ml, £18).
(12) Prices for the craft keg beers (from £4.60 a pint) can get silly, but it goes with the territory.
(13) This real ale redoubt for dissenting Village drinkers serves six cask ales (from local outfits such as Little Valley, Beartown, Dunham Massey, etc), two craft keg beers from Bury's Outstanding and a short, solid list of imported bottled beers, including Flying Dog's Raging Bitch and Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout.
(14) Looking back, that was a powder keg waiting for a match.
(15) Many in Camra still believe that cask is good and keg is bad.
(16) Others include Blackshore Stout and a dry hopped keg lager.
(17) She felt the lack of political will to tackle public health issues was a powder keg waiting to explode in one way or the other,” said her brother Albert, a GP based in the UK.
(18) This article reviews the most recent literature and discusses the author's "powder keg and tinderbox" theory of idiopathic calcium stone disease.
(19) It’s that people will choose not to buy something that they don’t like or want.” Ryan claims to have been dreaming of slashing social programs since his days doing keg stands, and when he and other Republicans managed to push the similarly disastrous American Health Care Act through the House, they wheeled out cases of beer to celebrate.
(20) Feral Hop Hog IPA, Swan Valley, WA It was only three years ago that a Melbourne pub, the Great Northern Hotel, first secured a few kegs of beer from WA’s Feral Brewing.