DRAUGHT (Mat_15:17, Mar_7:19) and DRAUGHT HOUSE (Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] draught-house, 2Ki_10:27) both signify a privy or closet, which in the Mishna is water-house. Jehu, according to the last-cited passage, turned the temple of Baal in Samaria into public latrines.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
draft (ἀφεδρών, aphedrō̇n; Mat_15:17; Mar_7:19): ?Closet,? ?sink? or ?privy? (Rheims), literally, ?place for sitting apart? (compare 2Ki_10:27, ?draught-house,? and Mishna ?water-house?). According to the Mishna, Jehu turned the temple of Baal in Samaria into public latrines, ?waterhouses.? Mark adds here (Mar_7:19) that by this saying Jesus cleansed all articles of food, i.e., declared them to be clean.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Draught
occurs in our version as a translation of ἀφεδρών (literally a place of sitting apart), a sink or privy (Mat_15:17; Mar_7:19).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.