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foredraft

foredraft noun: land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.

Noun

foredraft (plural foredrafts)

  1. Land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.
    • 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
  2. A current of air that flows forward
    • 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
  3. The draft at the fore perpendicular. Also "fore draft".
    • ... wherein said foredraft part includes at least a moorage hull part, — Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985

Forms of foredraft

pluralforedrafts
alternative formfore draft

Origin of foredraft

From fore + draft.

Questions about foredraft

What does foredraft mean?
Foredraft means land leading from a dwelling to a road or field.
What part of speech is foredraft?
Foredraft is a noun.
What is the plural of foredraft?
The plural of foredraft is foredrafts.

Words near foredraft in the dictionary

  1. foredoomed
  2. foredooming
  3. foredooms
  4. foredoor
  5. foredoors
  6. foredraft
  7. foredrafts
  8. foredraw
  9. foredrawn
  10. foredream
  11. foredreaming

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