An act of drinking.
Conscription, the system of forcing people to serve in the military.
The bevel given to the pattern for a casting, so that it can be drawn from the sand without damaging the mould.
The draw through a flue of gasses (smoke) resulting from a combustion process.
The pulling force (tension) on couplers and draft gear during a slack stretched condition.
A system of forcing or convincing people to take an elected position.
A preliminary sketch or outline for a plan.
A current of air, usually coming into a room or vehicle.
The quantity of liquid (such as water, alcohol, or medicine) drunk in one swallow.
An early version of a written work (such as a book or e-mail) or drawing.
The depth of water needed to float a particular ship; the depth from the waterline to the bottom of a vessel's hull; the depth of water drawn by a vessel.
Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.
A dose (of medicine, alcohol, etc.).
A system of assigning rookie players to professional sports teams.
A cheque, an order for money to be paid.
Referring to animals used for pulling heavy loads.
Referring to drinks on tap, in contrast to bottled.
To draw out; to call forth.
To write a law.
To conscript a person, force a person to serve in some capacity, especially in the military.
To follow very closely (behind another vehicle), thereby providing an aerodynamic advantage to both lead and follower and conserving energy or increasing speed.
To draw fibers out of a clump, for spinning in the production of yarn.
To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing.
To select someone (or something) for a particular role or purpose.
To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch.
To select a rookie player onto a professional sports team.
To select and separate an animal or animals from a group.
A shot of a drink, usually alcoholic.
A title, name or header, a catchline, a short phrase or title to indicate the content of a newspaper or magazine story for editing use.
A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug.
The last part of a clean URL, the displayed resource name, similar to a filename.
A hard blow, usually with the fist.
A black screen.
A motile pseudoplasmodium formed by amoebae working together.
A piece of type metal imprinted by a linotype machine; also a black mark placed in the margin to indicate an error; also said in application to typewriters; type slug.
A ship that sails slowly.
The imperial (English) unit of mass that accelerates by 1 foot per second squared (1 ft/s²) when a force of one pound-force (lbf) is exerted on it.
A solid block or piece of roughly shaped metal.
Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell.
An accessory to a diesel-electric locomotive, used to increase adhesive weight and allow full power to be applied at a lower speed. It has trucks with traction motors, but lacks a prime mover, being powered by electricity from the mother locomotive, and may or may not have a control cab.
A stranger picked up as a passenger to enable legal use of high occupancy vehicle lanes.
A hitchhiking commuter.
A counterfeit coin, especially one used to steal from vending machines.
A discrete mass of a material that moves as a unit, usually through another material.
To hit very hard, usually with the fist.
To drink quickly; to gulp; to down.
To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking.
To make sluggish.
To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel.
To load with a slug or slugs.