Talk:foredraft

The word is found in literature and on forums. The nautical is often spelled as two words but I did find it as one word. Not all of these are on the entry page. I put a few more here.


 * 1) Foredraft - A land leading from a dwelling to a road or field. glossary
 * 2) Farm containing messuage, barns, stable, buildings, gardens, foldyard and rickyard (1.1.39), the lane or Foredraft … &mdash; Shropshire Archives, 1835
 * 3) Foredrafty Fordrough [for-druf], ab, A private way through the homelands of a dwelling-house ; but which, by opening broadly on to a public road, has the appearance of a lane or by-way. &mdash; wordbook, 1896
 * 4) 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,… &mdash; A Modern Antaeus, 1901
 * 5) We would have scurried across the farmyard, scattering the flustered fowl as we went, then down the foredraft to wait by the gate… &mdash; Richard P. Mayer, The Young Gongoozler, 2010
 * 6) I think it would have been near what we called the foredraft by the pit. &mdash; Birmingham History, Hamstead Mill, 2006
 * 7) If the connections to the two plenums are air-tite, then there will be a back draft in one stream and a foredraft … &mdash; HVAC-Talk, 2006 If the connections to the two plenums are air-tite, then there will be a back draft in one stream and a foredraft
 * 8) Not phased by trucks or light winds. You drift into their foredraft and then back out of their backdraft as one solid unit … &mdash; TundraTalk, Towing Report, 2007
 * 9) The freight, after passing through Brick Station, would switch onto a trunk line and skirt the yards on its way north to Chicago. He listened intently, and picked up the foredraft of its cattle cars. &mdash; C.K. Robin, Judas Goat: A Fable
 * 10) Fore Draft - the draft at the fore perpendicular. &mdash; Capt. Pham Thanh Tuyen, Error of method determining the weight of cargo for ship, 2011
 * 11) ... wherein said foredraft part includes at least a moorage hull part, &mdash; Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985 --AnWulf ... Ferþu Hal! 04:39, 20 November 2011 (UTC)