Adjective : a draft horse. ,draft ale.    From Dictionary.com. 

Verb (used with object) : Sorrow and joy have checkered his life.    From Dictionary.com. 

That is to say the Regiment ate home collects recruits, trains them and sends 'them out in draughts to the Regiment abroad.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Organization of the Military Forces of the Empire] Reference

I complained, and was given another room where the draughts were the same, but I was without my coughing and hawking neighbour.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference

He came to criticise and remained to play a game of "draughts," as he called them, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference

Time is a wean, playin draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heraclitus] Reference

The life is very monotonous; and the only amusement they have is fishing, with reading and a few games, such as draughts and chess.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage Round England] Reference

"draughts" of eels on a Friday for the Saturday's work, a "draught" being twenty pounds, while now and then he has been known to get rid of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoners of Poverty Abroad] Reference

And those most favored swallow monstrous draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier] Reference

In ventilating the stable we should avoid draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The room should be warm; there should be no draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

Chickens must have plenty of fresh air without draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference

Cattle-trucks provide ample novelty, aroma and draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference

He seems animated by the draughts he takes from his wine-cask.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference

Rice, sugar, and molasses are our principal draughts from the Commissary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)] Reference

A screen will be found useful to prevent draughts and to shade the light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Management] Reference

The quarters should be clean, well bedded and ventilated, but free from draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

There are treacherous draughts under trees, and Polly was very careful of her mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Robin] Reference

So if you must sleep in the house, secure perfect ventilation without direct draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male] Reference

For a moment she leaned across the sill, drinking in deep draughts of the frosty ether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference

He or she is best and bravest among you who gives us the freshest draughts of reality and of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

He would look for the wine-bottles of the promises and drink rich draughts of vitalizing grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference

Give nothing by the mouth until the breathing is relieved, and then only draughts of cold water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

He combed great handfuls of mud from his plastered features and snorted deep draughts of fresh air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Luck] Reference

I have to withdraw many light-draughts from other points on the Mississippi to supply demands here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference

Some draughts were given which may have had some medicinal effect, but they were supposed to be enchanted drinks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

Or make a bed alongside of the wall anywhere and box it in to protect it from cold and draughts, and mice and rats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference

He thought he was a student again, loafing along the arcades after dinner, eager for novelty, careless of draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

It is very necessary that animals exposed to cold be provided with dry sleeping quarters that are free from draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

His draughts, however, for money, were always answered; and he hoped, from this circumstance, that his friends were well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People] Reference

McChesney stood on the bottom step, looking up and down Main Street and breathing in great draughts of that unadjectivable air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference

When you are in a perspiration, do not lie down upon the ground, do not expose yourself to draughts, and do not drink cold water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

"One drinks in the air by long draughts; the eyes seem to be intoxicated with the sun, the very soul to bathe in the glory of colour!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

After vomiting has taken place with these, aid it, if possible, by copious draughts of warm water until the poison is entirely removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

In cold weather it is very difficult to properly ventilate a crowded stable without too much loss of animal heat and creating draughts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

They are kept out of all draughts of air for fear of a cold; and if they should take cold, why, they must take medicine of the most repulsive character as a penalty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference