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 … — 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. — 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,… — 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… — Richard P. Mayer, The Young Gongoozler, 2010
6. I think it would have been near what we called the foredraft by the pit. — 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 … — 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 … — 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. — C.K. Robin, Judas Goat: A Fable
10. Fore Draft - the draft at the fore perpendicular. — 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, — Floating offshore structure : U.S. Patent Number 4,519,728, 1985 --AnWulf ... Ferþu Hal! 04:39, 20 November 2011 (UTC)