What is "dash down"

Usage examples of "dash down".

Hyperion and the frigate would stay to windward, in this case astern of the transports, so that they could dash down if required to defend them.

Then the ships of war could always dash down to the rescue if a Frenchman tried to cut off one of the convoy under their noses.

For a while they sat silent, watching the river in its noisy dash down the valley.

Snowy forest floor, the pursuit through the primeval trees-the dash down the ravine-the scene under the dam.

And half an hour later, mounted on a sturdy mountain pony and lightly provisioned for the dash down the mountains and across the plain to Coroth, Duncan was on his way as well, leaving a starry-eyed young priest to muse on what he had experienced.

A sloop had appeared at first light, using the light airs to dash down on the slow moving twodeckers like a terrier after three ponderous bullocks.

He watched her dash down the street in a flurry of torn silken skirt and tattered petticoat.