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Land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Farm containing messuage, barns, stable, buildings, gardens, foldyard and rickyard (1.1.39), the lane or Foredraft ... — Shropshire Archives, 1835
- He returned at last, and pointing to a tree that stood over on the far side of the foredraft which led up to the farm,... — A Modern Antaeus, 1901
- We would have scurried across the farmyard, scattering the flustered fowl as we went, then down the foredraft to wait by the gate... — Richard P. Mayer, The Young Gongoozler, 2010
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A current of air that flows forward
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- If the connections to the two plenums are air-tite, then there will be a back draft in one stream and a foredraft ... — HVAC-Talk, 2006
- Not phased by trucks or light winds. You drift into their foredraft and then back out of their backdraft as one solid unit ... — TundraTalk, Towing Report, 2007
- The freight, after passing through Brick Station, would switch onto a trunk line and skirt the yards on its way north to Chicago. He listened intently, and picked up the foredraft of its cattle cars. — C.K. Robin, Judas Goat: A Fable
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The draft at the fore perpendicular. Also "fore draft".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
Examples
- ... wherein said foredraft part includes at least a moorage hull part, — Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985
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