Foredraft

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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"

  2. 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"

  3. 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"

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"Farm containing messuage, barns, stable, buildings, gardens, foldyard and rickyard (1.1.39), the lane or Foredraft … — Shropshire Archives, 1835"

Etymology

From fore + draft.

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