Draught in a sentence as a noun

I would have thought draught and drought were homophones.

I had no idea that draught is pronounced draft.

Maybe, but cost isn't everything and draught ale is better than canned ale.

It was and still is the term to cause sheep and draught animals to move where you wanted them to go.

Honest question - why would you wait until the next draught or plague to get to know your neighbors well?

I work at a startup that has an amazing office, with a full bar and eight taps for draught beer.

Can they just "ship" or "pipe" the water in from neighboring states or are they too on the edge of a draught.

They are having devastating snowstorm s and we having draught.

I always thought that whatever I heard was always "draft", and that draught was some word that I only came across in written english.

Draught in a sentence as a verb

For instance, one of his major arguments was that the New World had few domesticated draught animals.

Only to escape tattered and draught, and approaching the enemy hidden by the planet horizon.

The Californians vote to move to heavy water rationing and regulation due to the threat of continuous draught.

I think that the size of the fireplace was also important, to create a draught we could use a broadsheet newspaper opened out and held over the fireplace surround.

People have compared it to a forest with tons of deadwood lying around just waiting for the right combination of draught, wind and a little bit of activation energy.

It's well worth a visit to learn about all the infrastructure California already has for managing water and coping with draught, and how severe this draught must be to overcome those safeguards.

Is this country-wide, just Western states, or just California and can other states give up water without risking throwing them into a draught?I know that's a bunch of questions but this article seems to raise more questions than it answers, at least for me.

Whereas formerly Apprentices and clerks with others used to take a morning draught of Ale, Beer or Wine, which, by the dizziness they cause in the Brain, made many unfit for business, they use now to play the Good-fellows in this wakeful and civil drink"And another from the historian Michelet:...For at length the tavern has been dethroned, the detestable tavern where, half a century ago, our young folks rioted among wine-tubs and harlots.

Draught definitions

noun

a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg; "they served beer on draft"

See also: draft potation tipple

noun

a large and hurried swallow; "he finished it at a single gulp"

See also: gulp draft swig

noun

a current of air (usually coming into a chimney or room or vehicle)

See also: draft

noun

the depth of a vessel's keel below the surface (especially when loaded)

See also: draft

noun

a dose of liquid medicine; "he took a sleeping draft"

See also: draft

noun

the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling

See also: draft drawing

verb

make a blueprint of

See also: blueprint draft