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Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Topic Options #204639 - 02/12/12 11:25 PM Re: All aboard that's coming aboard! [Re: hogmaster] Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11579 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky Ah! Draft horses, yes! (Hiya, olls.) Good heavens: the draft horses were drawing a dray of hops to make draft, which their owners could drink whilst playing Draughts and feeling a draft coming in the window. Top #204642 - 02/13/12 04:28 AM Re: All aboard that's coming aboard! [Re: olly] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5249 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague Don't forget the horsies.... Nor the soldiers. "Jeremy escaped from being drafted by playing the lunatic. Which wasn't much of an effort." Top #204643 - 02/13/12 08:12 AM Re: All aboard that's coming aboard! [Re: hogmaster] Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657 Not bad for a first draft of a list of different meanings. Top #204646 - 02/13/12 08:56 AM Re: All aboard that's coming aboard! [Re: Faldage] tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10464 Loc: this too shall pass but before we start singing waught like waft, to rhyme with draft, it should be noted that the IPA is given as /wɑxt/ , where x is ch as in Scots loch (also, the verb waught, to drink or quaff in large draughts, predates our noun by a couple hundred years.) Top #204650 - 02/13/12 03:40 PM Re: All aboard that's coming aboard! [Re: Jackie] olly old hand Registered: 12/18/06 Posts: 932 Loc: Auckland, New Zealand Hiya, olls Top #204654 - 02/13/12 10:27 PM Re: All aboard that's coming aboard! [Re: olly] Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11579 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky [waving madly e] Top Page 2 of 2 < 1 2 Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8428 Members 16 Forums 13687 Topics 209801 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members Eva, sylviasuper, continent2, a2teacher, teepee 8427 Registered Users Who's Online 1 registered (tsuwm), 38 Guests and 1 Spider online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 85 jenny jenny 57 wofahulicodoc 56 endymion6 50 Rhubarb Commando 37 BranShea 33 Faldage 14 Buffalo Shrdlu 14 zmjezhd 13 tsuwm 11 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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