draught

noun

• 1a current of cool air in a room or other confined space:heavy curtains at the windows cut out draughts

• 2a single act of drinking or inhaling:she downed the remaining beer in one draught
• the amount swallowed or inhaled in a draught:he took deep draughts of oxygen into his lungs
• literary or archaic a quantity of a liquid with medicinal properties:a sleeping draught

• 3the depth of water needed to float a ship:the shallow draught enabled her to get close inshore

• 4the drawing in of a fishing net.
• the fish taken at one drawing; a catch.

adjective

• 1denoting beer or cider served from a barrel or tank rather than from a bottle or can:draught ale

• 2denoting an animal used for pulling heavy loads:a draught horse