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Definition of Indraughts
1. indraught [n] - See also: indraught
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indraughts
Literary usage of Indraughts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Exact Survey of the Tide: Explicating Its Production and Propagation by Edward Barlow (1722)
"Of indraughts of Water, and Subterraneous Rivers j and their Accommodation to
Lund and Sea. r | 1HE ... are fo commonly conceiv'd to be indraughts of Water, ..."
2. Dampier's Voyages: Consisting of a New Voyage Round the World, a Supplement by William Dampier (1906)
"These are instances of strong Tides, occasioned by great indraughts ; yet where
there is but little rising and falling of the Water in comparison with the ..."
3. A New Voyage Round the World by William Dampier (1699)
"... great indraughts -, yet where there is but little ri- ... of the Tides at the
Mouths of thole indraughts. ..."
4. Calendar of Treasury Papers, 1556-[1728]: Preserved in Public Record Office by Great Britain Public Record Office, Great Britain Treasury (1868)
"... and thereupon several " indraughts " or receptacles were made to receive the
salt as well as the fresh water at convenient times to be issued forth, ..."
5. A Collection of the Public General Statutes Passed in the ... Year of the by Great Britain (1861)
"Arms, Creeks, Streams, and indraughts, and such Rights and Privileges, which the
Commissioners are authorized to purchase or acquire under the Provisions of ..."
6. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Ebbs and floods there could be none, < when there was no indraughts, bays, ...
Navigable rivers are indraughts to attain To INDRE'NCH. va [from drench-] To ..."
7. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques & Discoveries of the English by Richard Hakluyt (1907)
"Hee sayd that those foure indraughts were drawne into an inward ... The Philosophers
describe foure indraughts of this Ocean sea, in the foure opposite ..."
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