withdraught Obs. exc. arch.
Forms: see with prep. and draught n.; also 5 wedraught, 6 wyddra(u)ght, -drought, weydraught, widdrawte, 6–7 (8–9 arch.) wydraught, 7 widraught.
[f. with- + draught n., after withdraw.]
1. Withdrawal.
| 1340 Ayenb. 240 Þe castel of þe wombe..ne may him hyealde aye þane gost þanne he is asterued be uestinges and be wyþdraȝþes. 1437 Rolls of Parlt. IV. 508/2 The..hurtes..doone..to you..in withdraught of your due Custumes. 1442 Ibid. V. 64/2 Withoute fraude, embeselyng or withdraught therof in eny wise. c 1475 Partenay 5927 Thys knight saw hir come, with-draught wold not gette. 1623 T. Adams Peace-offering (1624) 42 May not a withdraught of all Gods fauours..be..foreseen? |
b. spec. Withdrawal from an action in court (= retraxit); a fine or fee imposed for this.
Cf. withdraw n., quot. 1444.
| [? 1402, 1455: see Essex Rev. (1907) XVI. 128, 133.] 1600 Maldon (Essex) Docts. Bundle 162 lf. 3 (MS.) Withdraughts. Item, they are charged with xxxiiii s. by them receyved for lycenses of concord in accions personalls. 1635 Maldon (Essex) Borough Deeds Bundle 80 No. 2 (MS.) Allowance to the said seriants for collectinge of withdrafts behind. |
† 2. A place of retirement or retreat; a retreat; a private chamber, retiring-room; a closet or recess.
| 1480 Caxton Myrr. iii. xxi. 175 He that hath none other wythdraughte ne other dwellyng place. 1481 Botoner Tulle on Old Age (Caxton) b vj, [He] fled by the withdraught into the toure of the same castelle. 1509 Will Earl of Oxford (Prerog. Crt. Cant.), ij peces of Rede Worstede vsed to be in the Wydraught of my Chamber. 1530 Palsgr. 288/2 Wydraught, basse chambre; ortraict; retraict. |
3. A privy; a sewer: = draught n. 45, 46.
Survives locally in leases.
| 1493–4 Leicester Borough Rec. (1901) II. 344 For borde & tymbre for the wedraught. a 1513 Fabyan Chron. vi. cciv. (1811) 215 Whan the Kynge was at the withdraught to purge nature. c 1516 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 245 A Hows for the comyn wyddrowght of the said College. 1559 Boke Presidentes 26 The sayde mesuage..with thappurtenances with the pauementes, and wydraughtes of the same. 1671 in Birch Hist. Charters (1884) 247 That no man shall make or continue any widraughts, seat or seats, for houses of easement. 1702 J. K. New Eng. Dict., A Wy-draught, a Water-course, or Water-passage. 1846 (25 Aug.) Lease (Surrey), Privies, sinks, sewers, wydraughts, drains and houses of office. 1896 Lease, Fences, pavements, gutters, pipes, drains, wydraughts. |