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 […]1641 May, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, pages 9-10:
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.
downcome
verb
Etymology From down- + come.
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 spark1958, Botteghe Oscure - Issue 21, page 174:
Everthing downcame today Anne the world's spinning out and I spec we finally all going to be riding raw.1995, Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Page 242:
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If she exes I don't know what would downcome.2013, Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, →ISBN: