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Example sentences for: draught
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The first person that drank was to empty the tankard to the first peg or pin; the second was to empty to the next pin, &c.; by which means the pins were so many measures to the compotators, making them all drink alike, or the same quantity; and as the distance of the pins was such as to contain a large draught of liquor, the company would be very liable by this method to get drunk, especially when, if they drank short of the pin, or beyond it, they were obliged to drink again.
At home he is surrounded by a farrago of toadies, a draught of butlers , and a temperance of cooks .
Idiomatic drinking, like drinking itself, is a little fuzzier, but two senses coexist: having your comrades clap you on the back as you tilt up your beer stein, or else downing a draught of nasty medicine because the doctor tells you to.
Leaving her as tasty as a draught from a mud-wrestler's jockstrap."