Downs
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Downs
- A surname.
Derived terms
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]the Downs
- (Sussex) The South Downs.
- Let's go for a walk on the Downs.
- A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
- 1771, James Cook, diary:
- On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel […] at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal.
- (UK, slang, obsolete, historical) Tothill Fields Bridewell, a prison located in the Westminster area of central London between 1618 and 1884.
References
[edit]- (Tothill Fields Bridewell): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
See also
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The Downs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Downs (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
