1747 W. King i. 19 He had heard of hard Students destroyed by Night-Damps.
1840 E. E. Napier II. App. 243 The exposure of his unseasoned person alternately to night damps and the burning rays of the sun.
1992 C. McCarthy (1993) ii. 140 The nightdamp laid the dust going up the ciénaga road and they rode the horses side by side at a walk.