The Collaborative International Dictionary
Down \Down\, a.
Downcast; as, a down look. [R.]
Downright; absolute; positive; as, a down denial. [Obs.]
--Beau. & Fl.-
Downward; going down; sloping; as, a down stroke; a down grade; a down train on a railway.
Down draught, a downward draft, as in a flue, chimney, shaft of a mine, etc.
Down in the mouth, Down at the mouth chopfallen; dejected.
Usage examples of "down draught".
Starboard of the wreck, about the same distance away from her as Argyle, Trask and party were to port, now the big rescue chopper sat like a great hawk on the air, with the ripples from her down draught spreading out in choppy concentric circles on the surface of the dead-calm sea.
Trask looked at Jake, and as the down draught from the chopper built up he turned to the telepath Liz Merrick.
Someone was laughing in the little group on the west side of the car park - the chopper was airborne over the pad and some balloons were blowing across the people's heads in the down draught.
And Ramage gave a shiver as the down draught from the mainsail chilled him.
Fassin blasted up it like a shell up a gun barrel, letting the pulse of down draught tear the diamond bubble box out in a convulsive explosion of wreckage that whipped away from the Dzunda and followed the remains of the colonel and her esuit towards the storm's concave base and the Depths beyond.