downcome

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Definition of downcome

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  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 […]”
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noun

  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 […]”
  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.

verb

  1. To come down; fall down; come or fall apart.
    “Mirage-bound and moving blind, he downcomes, Up-growing from his sapling game In the laughing park, Bearing the stolen spark”
    “Everthing downcame today Anne the world's spinning out and I spec we finally all going to be riding raw.”
    “If she exes I don't know what would downcome.”

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Etymology

From down- + come.

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