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n pron. “drafts” two-player board game where each player gets sixteen pieces and takes the opponent’s by jumping over them diagonally. I mean the pieces jump diagonally, not the players. Though it’s an interesting point as to whether two people could really jump over one another diagonally, given that the vector is relative to the positions of them both. In the U.S. the game is known as “checkers.”
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p. a.
Swallowed with greediness, or in large draughts.
n.
One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader.
n.
Large draughts of liquor; drink taken in excessive quantities.
n.
The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
n.
A crowned man in the game of draughts.
v. t.
To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.
n.
A game which one person can play alone; -- applied to many games of cards, etc.; also, to a game played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping," as in draughts.
n.
To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily.
v. t.
To drink in long draughts; to gulp; as, to swig cider.
v. i.
To make or write protocols, or first draughts; to issue protocols.
n.
A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10.
n.
One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
n.
A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts.
n.
The office, art, or work of a draughtsman.
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One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
pl.
of Draughtsman
n.
The games of backgammon and of draughts.
n.
A draughtsman's square in the form of a right-angled triangle.
v. t.
To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts.
n.
One who draughts protocols.
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