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foredraft

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Etymology

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From fore +‎ draft.

Noun

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foredraft (plural foredrafts)

  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
    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,…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… — Richard P. Mayer, The Young Gongoozler, 2010
  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
    Not phased by trucks or light winds. You drift into their foredraft and then back out of their backdraft as one solid unit … — 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. — C.K. Robin, Judas Goat: A Fable
  3. (nautical) 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