draughts
/drɑːfts/noun
- Brit. a board game for two players, played on a chequered board. Each player starts with twelve disc-shaped pieces in three rows along one side of the board, and moves them diagonally with the aim of capturing all the opponent's pieces.〈英〉 国际跳棋。
词源
late Middle English: from DRAUGHT; related to obsolete draught in the sense 'move' (in chess or any similar game); compare with French trait, from Latin tractus 'a dragging'.