different between draught vs scantling

English

Etymology

From Middle English draught, from Old English dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, noun form of *dragan?; equivalent to draw +? -t.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d???ft/

  Rhymes: -??ft

• (US) IPA^(key): /d?æft/

  Rhymes: -æft

• Homophone: draft

Noun

draught (countable and uncountable, plural draughts)

1. (British spelling) Alternative form of draft in its various senses.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Luke V:

     […] he sayde vnto Simon: Cary vs into the depe, and lett slippe thy nett to make a draught.

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 36:

     “Drink and pass!” he cried, handing the heavy charged flagon to the nearest seaman. “The crew alone now drink. Round with it, round! Short draughts—long swallows, men; ’tis hot as Satan’s hoof.

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 35:

     Finally I gave him a draught, and he sank into uneasy slumber.

   • 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter iii:

     Much as I wish that I had not to write this chapter, I know that I shall have to swallow many such bitter draughts in the course of this narrative. And I cannot do otherwise, if I claim to be a worshipper of Truth. […]

2. (Britain) A checker: a game piece used in the game of draughts.
3. (Australia) Ale: a type of beer brewed using top-fermenting yeast.
4. (Britain, medicine, obsolete) A mild vesicatory.
5. (obsolete) An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XV:

     Then sayde Jesus: are ye yett withoute understondinge? perceave ye not, that whatsoever goeth in at the mouth, descendeth doune into the bely, and ys cast out into the draught?
6. (Britain, obsolete) Any picture or drawing.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.22:

     And therefore, for the whole process, and full representation, there must be more than one draught; the one representing him in station, the other in session, another in genuflexion.

7. (Britain, obsolete) A sudden attack upon an enemy.

   • drawing sudden draughts upon the enemy when he looketh not for you

Synonyms

• (outhouse): draught-house; see also Thesaurus:bathroom
• (game piece): checker (used in checkers)

Derived terms

Related terms

• draw

Translations

Verb

draught (third-person singular simple present draughts, present participle draughting, simple past and past participle draughted)

1. (Britain) Alternative spelling of draft

References

• draught in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913..

Middle English

Alternative forms

• draucht, drauht, draght, draht

Etymology

From Old English dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz, equivalent to drawen +? -t.

Noun

draught (plural draughtes)

1. draught

Descendants

• English: draught
• Scots: draucht
• Yola: draught

References

• “draught, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Yola

Alternative forms

• draft

Etymology

From Middle English draught, from Old English dreaht, *dræht (related to dragan (“to draw, drag”)), from Proto-Germanic *drahtuz

Noun

draught

1. A drawing stroke with a weapon.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

Alteration of scantillon +? -ling, from Old French escantillon (“sample pattern”) (Modern French échantillon). Later senses also influenced by similarity with scant.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?skantl??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?skæntl??/

Noun

scantling (plural scantlings)

1. (chiefly in the plural) The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft.
2. (archaic) A small portion, a scant amount.
   • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.204:

     For one may have particular knowledge of the nature of one river, and experience of the qualitie of one fountaine, that in other things knowes no more than another man: who neverthelesse to publish this little scantling, will undertake to write all of the Physickes.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Honor and Reputation

     Such as exceed not this scantling, to be solace to the sovereign and harmless to the people.

   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     Reducing them to narrow scantlings.

3. A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square.
4. (uncountable) Timber in the form of small beams and pieces.
   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

     Victor, with hammer and nails and scraps of scantling, was patching a corner of one of the galleries.

5. (obsolete) A rough draught; a crude sketch or outline.
6. (obsolete) A frame for casks to lie upon; a trestle.

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Translations

See also

• scantlings

Adjective

scantling (comparative more scantling, superlative most scantling)

1. Not plentiful; small; scanty.

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Anagrams

• cantlings