A strip of foam rubber, metal, or other material inserted in a door or window frame to keep out draughts.
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By next December, I'll probably have big sausage-shaped draught excluders lying at the base of every door in my home, and both of my feet will be encased in one of those lovely snug all-in-one slippers.
One Sunday our neighbour says she's decided that it is me and could I please ask our landlord to fit draft excluders on our front door.
She could not get out of the flat so I told her to put draft excluders at the bottom of the door and to lie on the floor.
I'd heard recently that musicians are much more likely to have an internal musical score but, since I'm about as musically talented as your average draught excluder, I don't see how that applies to me.
My immediate response was getting a friend round to block up the gaps under my doors with draught excluders.
Three doors led off the third-floor landing; one to a toilet, one to the master bedroom and the third to the rest of the staircase, acting as a combined draught excluder and fire door.
The interlining makes the fabric hang well and is a marvellous draught excluder.
I am therefore surprised to arrive at Hotel Galapagos on Santa Cruz, an hour or so later, to find one draped across my doorstep like a novelty draft excluder.
Once, security x-rayed a suitcase and thought they'd found a snake; we found a draught excluder.
Spell-checkers are the worst invention since sausage dog-shaped draught excluders and novelty doorbells.
That job done, I washed the paint brushes and set about replacing the draft excluders on all of my windows.
But they will also welcome some entirely new pals - Hissy Missy, a snake-shaped draught excluder, Tiffo, a stuffed dog, Orbie, a bouncing ball, and Bilbo, who sails a yacht on wheels.