making down

Verb

make down (third-person singular simple present makes down, present participle making down, simple past and past participle made down)

1. (Dutch, English, Pennsylvania) To rain or snow; to precipitate.
   • “Boy, is it really making down! And those flakes are the kind I used to think the fairies used for cushions when I was a little kid. It won't take long to pile up several inches of that stuff. I hope it quits soon so we can go out to the trail this afternoon.”1952, Ethel Todd Anderson, Summer in Their Eyes, page 100
2. To make ready or prepare (a bed).
   • At length he said, feebly, “Betty, my dear, make down the bed, and help me to it—it will be the last time.”1818, James Hogg, “Tales”, in The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, page 128