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General dictionaries General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. draff: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. draff: Wordnik [home, info]
  3. draff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  4. draff: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  5. Draff, draff, draff: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  6. Draff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  7. Draff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  8. draff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  9. Draff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  10. draff: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  11. draff: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  12. draff: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  13. draff: Worthless Word For The Day [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Draff: Encyclopedia [home, info]

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  1. Draff: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (draff)

  • (n.) A current of air. Same as Draught.
  • (n.) A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.
  • (n.) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face.
  • (n.) A narrow border worked to a plane surface along the edge of a stone, or across its face, as a guide to the stone-cutter.
  • (n.) A selecting or detaching of soldiers from an army, or from any part of it, or from a military post; also from any district, or any company or collection of persons, or from the people at large; also, the body of men thus drafted.
  • (n.) An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods.
  • (n.) An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange.
  • (n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.
  • (n.) Refuse; lees; dregs; the wash given to swine or cows; hogwash; waste matter.
  • (n.) The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught.
  • (n.) The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.
  • (n.) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.

    (This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)



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