draught

• n.気流；為替手形；徴兵（イコールドラフト）
• vt.徴兵；徴用；選抜（徴兵に等しい）
• adj.描く；引きずる（ドラフトに等しい）

PIE *dhragh「引っ張る」「吸い出す」が語源で、語源的にはdrag「引っ張る」と同じ。 ventilating draught「通風ドラフト」、chess piece「チェスの駒」、sip「一口」に由来する。

draught

draught: [12] Draught and draft are essentially the same word, but draft (more accurately representing its modern English pronunciation) has become established since the 18th century as the spelling for ‘preliminary drawing or plan’, ‘money order’, and (in American English) ‘conscription’. The word itself probably comes from an unrecorded Old Norse *drahtr, an abstract noun meaning ‘pulling’ derived from a prehistoric Germanic verb *dragan (source of English drag and draw).

Most of its modern English meanings are fairly transparently descended from the idea of ‘pulling’: ‘draught beer’, for example, is ‘drawn’ from a barrel. Of the less obvious ones, ‘current of air’ is air that is ‘drawn’ through an opening; the game draughts comes from an earlier, Middle English sense of draught, ‘act of drawing a piece across the board in chess and similar games’; while draft ‘provisional plan’ was originally ‘something drawn or sketched’.
=> draft, drag, draw

draught (n.)

c. 1200, from Old English *dreaht, *dr?ht, related to dragan "to draw, drag" (see drag (v.)). Oldest sense besides that of "pulling" is of "drinking." It retains the functions that did not branch off with draft (q.v.).

1. They drink bitter on draught in the local bar.

彼らは地元のバーで樽詰めの苦いビールを飲んでいる。

2.One of the night-duty nuns gave her a sleeping draught .

夜勤の修道女が睡眠薬を与えた。

3.The restaurant is licensed，offering draught beers，wines，spirits and soft drinks.

このレストランには酒類経営許可証があり、ビール、ワイン、スピリッツ、サイダーを提供している。

4. Draught beer is available too.

樽詰めビールも提供する。

5.He took a draught of beer.

彼はビールをたくさん飲んだ。