Sentence:  It dawns on you that instead of a lump to fill the seat across the bridge table from you , he was a man , and that because Gratt Shafer was making you miserable , you were passing it <WSD>down</WSD> to him , to Gratt Shafer 's substitute , that other guy . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  away from a more central or a more northerly place