downcome

plural downcomes

1. A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction.

   And doutles, when ever the Pope shall fall, if his ruine bee not like the sudden down-come of a Towre, the Bishops, when they see him tottering, will leave him, and fall to scrambling […]

   1641 May, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, pages 9-10

2. In ironmaking, a pipe that leads combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
3. A downpour of rain.

present singular third person downcomes · participle present downcoming · past downcame

1. To come down; fall down; come or fall apart.

   If she exes I don't know what would downcome.

   2013, Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, →ISBN

   2 more examples

   Mirage-bound and moving blind, he downcomes, Up-growing from his sapling game In the laughing park, Bearing the stolen spark

   1958, Botteghe Oscure - Issue 21, page 174

   Everthing downcame today Anne the world's spinning out and I spec we finally all going to be riding raw.

   1995, Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Page 242