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light draft

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noun Nautical.

the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.

Origin of light draft

First recorded in 1865–70

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A light-draft transport was rigged for (p. 091) the enterprise.
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Charles Carleton Coffin.
The steamboats were of the usual style of light-draft river craft, built to carry freight and passengers.
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Augustus Meyers