ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Foredraft

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Foredraft is a noun meaning Land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.

Meaning

Land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.

More Meanings

  1. A current of air that flows forward
  2. (nautical) The draft at the fore perpendicular. Also "fore draft".

Example Sentences

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
... wherein said foredraft part includes at least a moorage hull part, — Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985
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

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