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Draughts

Draughts

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Noun.

pl.

A mild vesicatory. See

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Noun.

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Draughts

,

Noun.

pl.

A game, now more commonly called

checkers

. See

.

☞

Polish draughts

is sometimes played with 40 pieces on a board divided into 100 squares.

Am. Cyc.

Definition 2024

draughts

draughts

English

Noun

draughts

plural of draught

Noun

draughts ‎(uncountable)

(board games, Britain, uncountable) 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.)
A mild vesicatory.

Synonyms

checkers (US, Canada)

Translations

game for two players

Albanian: damë (sq) f
Arabic: دَامَا f ‎(dāmā)
Armenian: շաշկի (hy) ‎(šaški)
Azeri: dama
Basque: dama-joko
Belarusian: ша́шкі f pl ‎(šáški)
Bengali: চেকারস ‎(cekars)
Bulgarian: да́ма (bg) f ‎(dáma)
Burmese: ကျားထိုးခြင်း ‎(kya:htui:hkrang:)
Catalan: dames (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 國際跳棋, 国际跳棋 ‎(guójì tiàoqí), 跳棋 (zh) ‎(tiàoqí)
Chuukese: sikang
Czech: dáma (cs) f
Danish: dam (da)
Dutch: damspel (nl) n
Esperanto: damludo
Estonian: kabe (et)
Finnish: tammi (fi)
French: jeu de dames (fr) m, dames (fr) f pl
Galician: damas f pl
Georgian: შაში ‎(šaši)
German: Dame (de) n, Damespiel (de) n
Greek: ντάμα (el) f ‎(dáma)
Hebrew: דַּמְקָה (he) f ‎(dámka)
Hindi: चेकर्स m ‎(cekars), ड्राफ़्टस m ‎(ḍrāfṭas)
Hungarian: dáma (hu)
Icelandic: dammur m, dammtafl n
Ido: dami (io)
Indonesian: dam (id)
Italian: dama (it) f
Japanese: チェッカー ‎(chekkā), 西洋碁 ‎(せいようご, seiyōgo)
Kazakh: дойбы (kk) ‎(doybı)
Korean: 체커 ‎(chekeo)
Kurdish:
Sorani: دامه‌ (ku)
Kyrgyz: дойбу (ky) ‎(doybu)

Latvian: dambrete
Lithuanian: saškės
Macedonian: да́ма f ‎(dáma)
Malay: dam (ms), damdam
Maori: mū
Mongolian: даам (mn) ‎(daam)
Navajo: naalzhoodí
Norwegian:

Bokmål: dam (no) m

Nynorsk: dam m
Persian: چکرز (fa) ‎(čekerz)
Plautdietsch: Daumbrat n
Polish: warcaby (pl) f pl
Portuguese: damas (pt) f pl
Romanian: dame (ro) f pl, table (ro) f pl
Russian: ша́шки (ru) f pl ‎(šáški)
Scottish Gaelic: dàmais f, tàileasg m
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: дама f

Roman: dama (sh) f
Slovak: dáma (sk) f
Slovene: dama f
Southern Altai: шатра ‎(şatra)
Spanish: damas (es) f pl
Swahili: dama, drafti
Swedish: damspel, dam (sv)
Tagalog: dama
Tajik: шашки ‎(šaški)
Thai: หมากฮอส ‎(màak-hót)
Tibetan: མཆོང་སྒྲིག་མིག་མངས ‎(mchong sgrig mig mangs)
Turkish: dama (tr)
Turkmen: şaşka
Ukrainian: ша́шки f pl ‎(šášky)
Urdu: ڈرافٹس m ‎(ḍrāfṭas)
Uzbek: shashka (uz)
Vietnamese: cờ đam
Yakut: дуобат ‎(duobat)
Yiddish: דאַמקע f ‎(damke)

Verb

draughts

third-person singular simple present indicative form of draught