- a variation of indraft.
indraught
Britishnoun
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the act of drawing or pulling in
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an inward flow, esp of air
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The force of the indraught is enormous, and none but strong men can withstand it.
From The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries by Sir Francis Galton
At both the southerly and easterly parts of the Strait there are islands, among which the sea hath his indraught into the Straits, even as it hath in the main entrance of the frete.
From Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World by Francis Pretty
Again, if the Gibraltar indraught is the effect of evaporation, why does it go on in winter as well as in summer?
From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
He had scarcely entered the arch, when the indraught was so violent, and the noise of the wind so dreadful and astounding, that he almost determined to relinquish the undertaking.
From Jack Sheppard A Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
The greater that energy, the greater the heat generated either by the process of steady contraction imagined in Laplace's theory, or by the process of meteoric indraught imagined in the aggregation theory.
From The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes by Various
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