Definition of "downcome" [down•come]

• A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction. (noun)
• In ironmaking, a pipe that leads combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned. (noun)
• To come down; fall down; come or fall apart. (verb)

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• "But little cause have I to speak, for I too am a downcome."
• "It's just more bad luck than anything else that you should have gone to the expense of setting up in style in a lord's castle and then having this downcome."
• "` ` Thou maun do without horse-sheet and surcingle now, lad, '' he said, addressing the animal; ` ` you and me hae had a downcome alike. we had better hae fa'en in the deepest pool o 'Tarras.' '"