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Teeronline Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Draught
Hi everyone,
I searched the meaning of "draught", and got return a roughly meaning of any drink, no specific name. I wonder if that's correct, draught is interchangeable with drink, any time anywhere. Please correct me if not. thans
I searched the meaning of "draught", and got return a roughly meaning of any drink, no specific name. I wonder if that's correct, draught is interchangeable with drink, any time anywhere. Please correct me if not. thans
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Hi, I searched the meaning of "draught", and got return a roughly meaning of any drink, no specific name. I wonder if that's correct, draught is interchangeable with drink, any time anywhere. Please correct me if not.
- Hi, I searched the meaning of "draught", and got return a roughly meaning of any drink, no specific name.
- I wonder if that's correct, draught is interchangeable with drink, any time anywhere.
- Please correct me if not.
- thans'' The usual meaning of this type is 'as much as you can drink from the time you put a glass to your lips to the time you take it away'.
- This meaning is quite uncommon today, and sounds rather old-fashioned, even perhaps close to archaic.
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Hi,
I searched the meaning of "draught", and got return a roughly meaning of any drink, no specific name. I wonder if that's correct, draught is interchangeable with drink, any time anywhere. Please correct me if not. thans''
The usual meaning of this type is 'as much as you can drink from the time you put a glass to your lips to the time you take it away'.
This meanin
I searched the meaning of "draught", and got return a roughly meaning of any drink, no specific name. I wonder if that's correct, draught is interchangeable with drink, any time anywhere. Please correct me if not. thans''
The usual meaning of this type is 'as much as you can drink from the time you put a glass to your lips to the time you take it away'.
This meanin
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I agree with Clive.
To draft/draught is to draw, so you can draw a sip from a glass. He took a long draft (from a glass or from a tobacco pipe). It seems to work as a verb, a noun and an adjective (draught horses).
But the only use which persists relates to beer, as Clive says.
"Draw me one!"
"I'll have a draft."
(Perhaps, "I was drafted." They drew my n
To draft/draught is to draw, so you can draw a sip from a glass. He took a long draft (from a glass or from a tobacco pipe). It seems to work as a verb, a noun and an adjective (draught horses).
But the only use which persists relates to beer, as Clive says.
"Draw me one!"
"I'll have a draft."
(Perhaps, "I was drafted." They drew my n
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Ah, I got it, not for any specific kind but a long gulp of drink, and a dated term too. Thanks both replies are very helpful. ^^
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My post wasn't very clear.
If you say, "I'll have a draft," it could conceivably mean "I'll have a (single) drink out of the glass," in the old sense; but in the modern sense it would be taken as I'll have a draft beer (from the keg), rather than a bottled beer.
Although lately Miller has been offering a bottled beer which they call "genuine draft."
If you say, "I'll have a draft," it could conceivably mean "I'll have a (single) drink out of the glass," in the old sense; but in the modern sense it would be taken as I'll have a draft beer (from the keg), rather than a bottled beer.
Although lately Miller has been offering a bottled beer which they call "genuine draft."
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