Definitions for drafter

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

draftdræft, drɑft(n.)

  1. a drawing, sketch, or design.

  2. a preliminary form of any writing, subject to revision, refinement, etc.

  3. the act of drawing.

  4. a current of air in any enclosed space, esp. in a room or chimney.

  5. a device for regulating the current of air in a fireplace, etc.

  6. an act of drawing or pulling loads.

  7. something that is drawn or pulled; a haul.

  8. an animal or team of animals used to pull a load.

    Category: Animal Husbandry

  9. the force required to pull a load.

  10. the taking of supplies, money, etc., from a given source.

  11. a selection of persons, as by lot, for military service, an athletic team, etc.

    Category: Military, Sport

  12. the persons so selected.

    Category: Military

  13. a bill of exchange.

    Category: Business

  14. beer or ale drawn from a cask.

    Category: Viniculture/Winemaking

  15. an act of drinking or inhaling.

  16. something that is drunk or inhaled; a drink or dose.

  17. the depth to which a vessel is immersed when bearing a given load.

    Category: Nautical, Navy

  18. a quantity of fish caught.

    Category: Sport

  19. Metall. the slight taper given to a pattern so that it may be drawn from the sand without injury to the mold.

    Category: Metallurgy

  20. a line or border chiseled at the edge of a stone, to serve as a guide in leveling the surfaces.

    Category: Building Trades

  21. (v.t.)to sketch.

  22. to compose.

  23. to draw or pull.

  24. to select by draft, as for military service.

    Category: Military, Common Vocabulary

  25. (v.i.)to work as a draftsman.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

  26. Sports.to ride or drive close behind, as a bicycle or automobile, so as to benefit from the reduction in wind resistance created behind the leader.

    Category: Sport

  27. (adj.)used for drawing loads:

    a draft horse.

  28. drawn from a cask rather than served from a bottle.

    Category: Viniculture/Winemaking

  29. being a preliminary outline or sketch.

Idioms for draft:

  1. on draft,available to be drawn from a cask:

    beer on draft.

    Category: Idiom, Viniculture/Winemaking

Origin of draft:

1150–1200; c. OHG traht, ON drāttr; akin to OE dragan to draw

draft′er(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. drafter(noun)

    a writer of a draft

Wiktionary

  1. drafter(Noun)

    a person who prepares technical drawings and plans

  2. drafter(Noun)

    a person who prepares drafts

  3. drafter(Noun)

    a person who writes a legislative bill


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