Draught

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) The drawing of a bowstring.

(2): ( n.) Act of drawing a net; a sweeping the water for fish.

(3): ( n.) The act of drawing liquor into the mouth and throat; the act of drinking.

(4): ( n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like.

(5): ( n.) The act of drawing or pulling

(6): ( n.) A sudden attack or drawing upon an enemy.

(7): ( n.) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation.

(8): ( n.) That which is drawn

(9): ( n.) That which is taken by sweeping with a net.

(10): ( n.) The force drawn; a detachment; - in this sense usually written draft.

(11): ( n.) The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2)

(12): ( n.) A sketch, outline, or representation, whether written, designed, or drawn; a delineation.

(13): ( n.) An order for the payment of money; - in this sense almost always written draft.

(14): ( n.) The quantity drawn in at once in drinking; a potion or potation.

(15): ( n.) That which draws

(16): ( n.) A team of oxen or horses.

(17): ( n.) A sink or drain; a privy.

(18): ( n.) A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.

(19): ( n.) Capacity of being drawn; force necessary to draw; traction.

(20): ( n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught.

(21): ( n.) An allowance on weighable goods. [Eng.] See Draft, 4.

(22): ( n.) A move, as at chess or checkers.

(23): ( n.) The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, in order that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.

(24): ( n.) A current of air moving through an inclosed place, as through a room or up a chimney.

(25): ( a.) Used for drawing vehicles, loads, etc.; as, a draught beast; draught hooks.

(26): ( a.) Relating to, or characterized by, a draft, or current of air.

(27): ( a.) Used in making drawings; as, draught compasses.

(28): ( a.) Drawn directly from the barrel, or other receptacle, in distinction from bottled; on draught; - said of ale, cider, and the like.

(29): ( n.) See Draft, n., 7.

(30): ( v. t.) To draw out; to call forth. See Draft.

(31): ( v. t.) To diminish or exhaust by drawing.

(32): ( v. t.) To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.

King James Dictionary

Draught n. Draft. from draw, drag.

1. The act of drawing as a horse or ox fit for draught. 2. The quality of being drawn as a cart of plow of easy draught. 3. The drawing of liquor into the mouth and throat the act of drinking. 4. The quantity of liquor drank at once. 5. The act of delineating, or that which is delineated a representation by lines, as the figure of a house, a machine, a fort, &c., described on paper. 6. Representation by picture figure painted, or drawn by the pencil. 7. The act of drawing a net a sweeping for fish. 8. That which is taken by sweeping with a net as a draught of fishes.  Luke 5 . 9. The drawing or bending of a bow the act of shooting with a bow and arrow. 10. The act of drawing men from a military band, army or post also, the forces drawn a detachment. See Draft, which is more generally used. 11. A sink or drain.  Matthew 15 . 12. An order for the payment of money a bill of exchange. See Draft. 13. The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden as a ship of twelve feet draught. 14. In England, a small allowance on weighable goods, made by the king to the importer, or by the seller to the buyer, to insure full weight. 15. A sudden attack or drawing on an enemy. Query. 16. A writing composed. 17. Draughts, a kind of game resembling chess.

DRAUGHT, To draw out to call forth. See Draft.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Ἄγρα (Strong'S #61 — Noun Feminine — agra — ag'-rah )

"a hunting, catching" (from ago, "to lead"), is used only in connection with fishing. In  Luke 5:4 it signifies the act of catching fish; in ver. 9 it stands for the catch itself.

2: Ἀφεδρών (Strong'S #856 — Noun Masculine — aphedron — af-ed-rone' )

"a latrine, a sink, drain," is found in  Matthew 15:17;  Mark 7:19 .

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

DRAUGHT (  Matthew 15:17 ,   Mark 7:19 ) and Draught House (Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘draught-house,’   2 Kings 10:27 ) both signify a privy or closet, which in the Mishna is ‘water-house.’ Jehu, according to the last-cited passage, turned the temple of Baal in Samaria into public latrines.

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

A cesspool or receptacle for filth,  2 Kings 10:27;  Matthew 15:17 . Also, all the fishes taken at one drawing of a net,  Luke 5:9 .

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

draft ( ἀφεδρών , aphedrō̇n  ;  Matthew 15:17;  Mark 7:19 ): "Closet," "sink" or "privy" (Rheims), literally, "place for sitting apart" (compare  2 Kings 10:27 , "draught-house," and Mishna "water-house"). According to the Mishna, Jehu turned the temple of Baal in Samaria into public latrines , "waterhouses." Mark adds here ( Mark 7:19 ) that by this saying Jesus cleansed all articles of food, i.e., declared them to be clean.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

occurs in our version as a translation of Ἀφεδρών (literally a place of sitting apart), a sink or privy ( Matthew 15:17;  Mark 7:19).