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Definition of Send down
1. Verb. Suspend temporarily from college or university, in England.
Definition of Send down
1. Verb. (UK Irish) To expel an undergraduate from university. ¹
2. Verb. (cricket) To bowl. ¹
3. Verb. (slang) To commit someone to a prison term. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Send Down
Literary usage of Send down
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Abridged Academy Song-book: For Use in Schools and Colleges by Charles Herbert Levermore (1918)
"send down Thy Spir • it free, Till wil - der - ness and town 1. send down Thy
truth, О God! Too long the shad - ows frown; T т=Г= ""~ ^ Too long the dark ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Should Lord Byron discharge the valet in question, and the man become helpless
and hungry out of place, let him send down a subscription paper to Mr Jeffrey ..."
3. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"... danger appal: and be assured that the just God, who crowned their efforts with
success, will, in His own good time, send down His blessings upon yours. ..."
4. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"... danger appal: and be assured that the just God, who crowned their efforts with
success, will, in His own good time, send down His blessings upon yours. ..."
5. Annals of the Reformation and Establishment of Religion, and Other Various by John Strype (1824)
"Sir Walter Ralegh to the lord treasurer ; to send down a commission for examination
and inquiry concerning the robbing of the carack, Sept. 17, 1592. ..."
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