noun. The game of checkers.

noun plural. A mild vesicatory. See draught, n., 3 (c).

noun plural. A game, now more commonly called checkers. See checkers.

noun. Plural form of draught.

noun. A board game for two players in which the players each have 20 pieces, known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces. (See the Wikipedia page for the full rules of the game. There are various variants of the game.)

verb. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of draught.

noun. a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces

"We have lived to see enacted on this land which we have claimed for Christian civilization, the feats that were deemed heroic, centuries ago by barbarians who could quench their rage only in draughts from the skulls of their slain foes."

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