through-draught
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through-draught (plural through-draughts)
- (UK) A draught or air current that blows across a space; cross breeze.
- 2004, Ben Pester, Through the Land of Fire: Fifty-Six South, page 231:
- The only through-draught came from the two Dorade ventilators in the heads compartment but by the time the air from them reached us on our bunks it felt superheated.
- 2014, Ian J. Finch, D. F. Bratchell, E. F. Candlin, General Studies: A First Handbook for Technical Students, page 79:
- Periodically, of course, the bag has to be removed and emptied, otherwise it will become choked, and the cleaner's efficiency impaired by lack of a strong through-draught of air.
- 2015, Janie Bolitho, Snapped in Cornwall:
- The wind was whistling around the side of the house and there was a through-draught as the kitchen window was open.
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- “through-draught”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.