through draft

plural through drafts

1. alternativeAlternative form of through-draught.

   The open ends helped season the timber with a through draft, although it was a noticeable few degrees colder in the shed than outside in the sun and the draft always seemed to be on the back of your neck!

   2017, Peter Draper, Restoring a Dunkirk Little Ship: Caronia SS70

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   This plan is satisfactory with the exception of stall arrangement; six instead of four horses could be accommodated, four straight stalls on one side, two boxes opposite, and a through draft would then be obtained over the horses' heads.

   1902 September, Howard Nott Potter, “Stable Planning”, in The Architectural Review, volume 9, number 9, page 150

   This room looked out through large windows over the usual railed gangway onto a courtyard with enormous acacia trees and, on hot summer nights, he obtained a through draft by sleeping with door and windows wide open.

   2010, Avril Pyman, Pavel Florensky: A Quiet Genius, page 20