downrush

From down- +‎ rush.

downrush (third-person singular simple present downrushes, present participle downrushing, simple past and past participle downrushed)

1. (intransitive) To rush down; rush downward.
   • 1989, Michel Gresset, Fascination: Faulkner's fiction, 1919-1936:

     [...] For there is death in the sound of it, and a glamorous fatality, like silver pennons downrushing at sunset, or a dying fall of horns along the road to Roncevaux.

• downrushing

downrush (plural downrushes)

1. A rushing down.