Meanings
adjectivedown-river (comparative more down-river, superlative most down-river)
comparative more down-river · superlative most down-river
- alternativeAlternative form of downriver.
Expecting to be taken aback with a sharp squall we kept our eyes well to the wind'ard, for you see on this river with cannibals on the lookout and no vessels there was no chance of skulking on shore for a down-river craft.
1877, R. Elton Smile [pseudonym; Elton Romeo Smilie], chapter II, in The Manatitlans; or A Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S.A., Buenos Ayres: Imprenta De Razon [actually Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press], →OCLC, page 20
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