sleeping draft

English

Noun

sleeping draft (plural sleeping drafts)

  1. Alternative spelling of sleeping draught.
    • 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 130:
      But the potion - which must have been a strong sleeping draft or its opposite, a stimulant or hallucinogen - can only have mitigated the agony.