Talk:draft

RFC discussion: October 2010–November 2017

See Talk:draught#RFC discussion: October 2010–November 2017.

the draft

Does the draft deserve its own entry? --Backinstadiums (talk) 14:53, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2019–February 2020

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draft

Rfv-sense That which draws, such as a team of oxen or horses. tagged but not listed. Kiwima (talk) 20:45, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

I have managed to find one, which I added. Kiwima (talk) 21:38, 31 December 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 05:23, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

I checked to see if the English Dialect Dictionary had any citations of this, and I notice that they have another sense which the citation you found (Citations:draft) might instead be: "animal[] selected or drawn out from a pack, herd, or flock". The EDD mentions several compounds ("draft-ewe", "draft-gimmer", "draft-sheep") which could be searched for, and gives pointers to two examples of 'bare' use of that sense, which I tracked down:

• 1849 (edition), Henry Stephens, Farm Book / The Book of the Farm, volume I, page 213:

  The lambs, dinmonts or wethers, drafted out of the fat or young stock are sheddings, tails or drafts.

• a. 1875, Charles Palk Collyns, Chase of the Wild Red Deer, page 107, quoted in 1875, Frederick Thomas Elworthy, The Dialect of West Somerset (in its own entry which defines "draft" as "hound[] selected from a pack"):

  I must mention here the kind assistance rendered by Mr. C. Davis, who supplied us with six couple of hounds, and with other drafts the pack was set on foot.

The EDD also has a verb "select or cull animals from a pack, herd, or flock" (which our entry already has, I see) with several citations. - -sche (discuss) 21:07, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

That looks like our definition 4: A quantity that is requisitioned or drawn out from a larger population. It contains similar quotes, plus at least one that involves people. Kiwima (talk) 19:29, 8 February 2020 (UTC)

Spelling outside UK & USA

How about Canadian, South African, Australian, New Zealand (etc.) spelling? —DIV (1.145.101.239 14:34, 23 March 2023 (UTC))