Downs

See also: downs and Down's

English

Proper noun

Downs

1. A surname.

Derived terms

• Downs cell
• Downs process
• Hellings and Downs curve
• Hellings-Downs curve

 

Proper noun

the Downs

1. (Sussex) The South Downs.

   Let's go for a walk on the Downs.

2. A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
   • 1771, James Cook, diary:

     On the 11th [June, 1771] we run up the channel […] at noon we were abreast of Dover, and about three came to an anchor in the Downs, and went ashore at Deal.

3. (UK, slang, obsolete, historical) Tothill Fields Bridewell, a prison located in the Westminster area of central London between 1618 and 1884.

References

• (Tothill Fields Bridewell): John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

See also

• The Downs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Downs (surname) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• nowds, sdown, sownd