What does through-draft mean?

through-draft

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.59 in modern English

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"All the internal doors were wedged wide, and there were upper windows open sufficient to make sure that there would be a strong through-draft."
"She opened two more windows, trying to get a through-draft."
"It was another scorcher of a summer that year and the temperature in the flat was almost unbearable, even with the glass windows kept covered up all day: we had the front door open to try to create a through-draft."

through-drafts (plural)

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