Drawth

Pronunciation varies by accent · noun

Meaning

The act or process of drawing; a pull; draught..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act or process of drawing; a pull; draught.
2. That which is draughted or drawn; a draught.
3. A treatise.

Example Sentences

Besides, through the fame mens Judgments, she made all directions to pass for the divers Moulds required in Shipping between our Seas and the Ocean, as the drawth of water, high or low disposing of Ports, cleanly rooms for Victuals, [...]

[...] and the steward's chamber and a drawth chamber with latrines, to the value of 100s.; [...]

[...] As to the actual and present state of the school, it has experienced since this 2 1/2 or 3 years a perceptible decline, on one side for want of European youths, and on the other thro the continual drawths from them, as whenever these youths had but half concluded their studies, they were included and placed directly under the military, [...]

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