downthrow
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]downthrow (plural downthrows)
- Defeat; ruin.
- 1821, William Oxberry, The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopædia of anecdote:
- These continued, led to the downthrow of the Russian expedition. The French, however, nothing daunted, pushed on, and arrived near Moscow […]
- (geology) A depression of the strata on one side of a fault; also, the degree of downward displacement in such a fault.
- Synonym: (obsolete) downcast
- 1955 July, “Storm Damage Repairs in Furness and West Cumberland”, in Railway Magazine, page 470:
- The geology at the site is mainly sandstone and shale overlaid with boulder clay, and is extremely confused. The ground is badly faulted, and at Micklam [Point], near Whitehaven, there is a downthrow of 480 ft.