Draughts

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Chiefly British The game of checkers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Plural form of draught.
  • n. A board game for two players in which the players each have 20 pieces, known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces. (See the Wikipedia page for the full rules of the game. There are various variants of the game.)
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of draught.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun-plural. A mild vesicatory. See draught, n., 3 (c).
  • noun-plural. A game, now more commonly called checkers. See checkers.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    board game   
    Variant
    draught    checkers   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    checkers   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    crafts    drafts    grafts    hafts    rafts    shafts