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  • verb Present participle of draught.

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Examples

  • President has found it necessary to announce that if the 300,000 volunteers were not ready by the 15th of August immediate resort would be had to draughting from the militia.

    Foreign Intelligence: America 1862

  • As he wrote, he could look out through the one window in his broom closet of an office across a narrow alley to an Occidental office, where engineers bent over draughting tables as though it were business as usual and as if nothing had changed.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • As he wrote, he could look out through the one window in his broom closet of an office across a narrow alley to an Occidental office, where engineers bent over draughting tables as though it were business as usual and as if nothing had changed.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • It must all come down and I must back to my draughting board.

    Mistakes in Building Young Geoffrion 2006

  • It must all come down and I must back to my draughting board.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Young Geoffrion 2006

  • "This way," and led them into what might once have been the dining room but now was a musty combination of draughting room, store room, and office, with water-stained wallpaper covering the upper half of the walls and battered wainscoting covering the lower half.

    A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001

  • Reaction was not only discussed, but management spent hours on draughting the final division of the channels and schedules to be completed before July 2, he said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • We gave them specific training in mathematics, physics, chemistry, draughting, care and use of equipment and so forth.

    Education and Industry 1955

  • Tom was standing by the big draughting table lettering a map, the surveyor was busy with some blueprints in the window, and Mr. Carson sat near by with a notebook in hand which he was searching industriously.

    Tabitha at Ivy Hall Ruth Alberta Brown

  • Pittsburgh Pa., a set of draughting tools for a guitar.

    Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various

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