foredraft

Noun

 * 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 … &mdash; Shropshire Archives, 1835
 * 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
 * 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
 * 1) 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 … &mdash; HVAC-Talk, 2006
 * 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
 * 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
 * 1)  The draft at the fore perpendicular. Also "fore draft".
 * ... wherein said foredraft part includes at least a moorage hull part, &mdash; Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985