down-river

down-river

English

Adjective

down-river (comparative more down-river, superlative most down-river)

  1. Alternative form of downriver.
    • 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:
      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.
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