Downs (English, name)
expansion: the Downs
Senses:
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: The South Downs.
glosses: A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war.
glosses: Tothill Fields Bridewell, a prison located in the Westminster area of central London between 1618 and 1884.
tags: UK
historical
obsolete
slang
Forms:
form: the Downs
tags: canonical