through draught

plural through draughts

1. alternativeAlternative form of through-draught.

   Similar conditions are familiar in Norway in old mine-workings that have been closed, so that there is no longer a through draught; ice may be found in them all the year round.

   1914, Fridtjof Nansen, Through Siberia, the Land of the Future, page 395

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   The same cannot be said of the bedroom; but condemnation of a bedroom for want of through draught on that floor would fall on some of the bedrooms in almost every large house in the country .

   1866, Reports of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council and Local Government Board, page 107

   Bring it into a room of moderate temperature, or stand it in a through draught of dry air until the moisture evaporates; and should any stain be left, make sure that the mirror is absolutely dry before attempting to polish it off.

   1906, James Baikie, Through the Telescope, page 40

   The latter requires a through draught. If there was originally a gap between postholes 92868 and 92688 then this, combined with the entirely open southeastern end, may have provided the required draught.

   2021, Jane Kenney, A Welsh Landscape through Time