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DRAUGHT
DRAUGHT, the depth of a body of water necessary to float a ship; hence a ship is said to draw so many feet of water, when she is borne up by a column of water of that particular depth. Thus, if it requires a body of water, whole depth is equal to twelve feet, to float or buoy up a ship on it's surface, she is said to draw twelve feet water; and that this draught may be more readily known, the feet are marked on the stem and stern-post, regularly from the keel upwards.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 102, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0451.html