What does "draff" mean?
Draff: The act of drawing; also, the thing drawn. Same as Draught. Everything available for draft burden. S. G. Goodrich.
Additional senses
- 2.(Mil.) 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. Several of the States had supplied the deficiency by drafts to serve for the year. Marshall.
- 3.An order from one person or party to another, directing the payment of money; a bill of exchange. I thought it most prudent to deter the drafts till advice was received of the progress of the loan. A. Hamilton.
- 4.An allowance or deduction made from the gross veight of goods. Simmonds.
- 5.A drawing of lines for a plan; a plan delineated, or drawn in outline; a delineation. See Draught.
- 6.The form of any writing as first drawn up; the first rough sketch of written composition, to be filled in, or completed. See Draught.
- 7.(Masonry) (a) A narrow border left on a finished stone, worked differently from the rest of its face. (b) 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.
- 8.(Milling) The slant given to the furrows in the dress of a millstone.
- 9.(Naut.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.
- 10.A current of air. Same as Draught.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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