n. The act of drawing or dragging (in any sense); a drawing; a draw; a haul; a pull.n. The capacity of being dragged or hauled; the yielding to a force which draws or drags: as, a cart or plow of easy draft.n. The act of drawing water from a well, or any liquid from a vessel; the state of being ready to be so drawn: as, ale on draught.n. That which is drawn, dragged, or pulled; a load or burden to be drawn.n. That which is secured by drawing or pulling; specifically, that which is obtained by drawing a net through the water in fishing; a haul.n. The act of drinking, as of water or wine.n. A quantity of a liquid drunk at one time; a quantity, especially of a medicine, prescribed to be drunk at one time.n. A drawing by sensuous or mental motives; attraction; enticement; inducement.n. The act of drawing or taking away a part; the act of taking a number or a portion from an aggregate; a levy; the act of depleting or reducing in number, force, etc.: as, a draft upon his resources.n. A selection of men or things for a special duty or purpose; specifically, a selection or drawing of persons from the general body of the people, by lot or otherwise, for military service; a levy; conscription; also, a selection of persons already in service, to be sent from one post or organization to another, in either the army or the navy; a detachment; also, a transfer of vessels of war to a different fleet or squadron.n. A team of horses in a cart or wagon. Brockett.n. The depth of water which a ship draws or requires to float it; the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden: as, a ship of 12 feet draft. If the vessel is fully laden, it is termed the load-water draft; if unloaded, the light-water draft.n. A written order drawn by one person upon another; a writing directing the payment of money on account of the drawer: a bill of exchange; particularly, an inland bill of exchange.n. The distance to which an arrow may be shot; a bow-shot. Also called bow-draught.n. The drawing or moving of air; the air so drawn or moved; a confined current, of air, as in a room or in the flue of a chimney.n. A move in chess or checkers.n. plural The game of checkers.n. A mild blister; a poultice.n. A drain; a sink; a privy.n. An allowance for waste of goods sold by weight; also, an allowance made at the custom-house on excisable goods.n. The act of drawing; delineation; that which is delineated; a representation by lines, as the figure of a house, a machine, a fort, etc., drawn on paper; a drawing or first sketch; an outline.n. Hence A first sketch, outline, or copy of any writing or composition; the proposed form of a written instrument prepared for amendment and alteration, as may be required, preliminary to making a fair copy.n. A treatise; a discourse.n. A drawbridge: same as draught-bridge.n. In founding, the slight bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.n. In masonry, a line on the surface of a stone hewn to the breadth of the chisel.n. In weaving, the cording of a loom or the arrangement of the heddles.n. The sectional area of the openings in a turbine-wheel or in a sluice-gate.n. The degree of deflection of a millstone-furrow from a radial direction.n. A stroke.n. Skill; art; stratagem.n. A company or lot.n. The heart, liver, and lights of a calf or sheep: in this sense only draught. Also called pluck.Used or suited for drawing loads: as, draft cattle.Being on draught; drawn as required from the cask: as, draught ale.To draw; pull.In weaving, to draw (thread) through the heddles.To draw out by selection, as for service; levy; conscript; specifically, to select (persons) by a draft for military purposes.To draw in outline; delineate; sketch; outline.To prepare the proposed form of, as a document or writing of any kind; make a first sketch of in writing: as, to draft a memorial or a lease.n. Same as draff.n. n. In textile-manuf., the amount of attenuation of a lap, sliver, or roving effected by drawing it between rollers running at different speeds.n. A body or bunch of cattle which have been separated from the rest of the herd. See draft, 10.In cotton manuf., to attenuate (a lap, sliver, or roving) by drawing it between rollers which run at different speeds.To separate (and sort) from the herd: as, to draft cattle. See def. 3.