Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

homeward bounder

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.68 in modern English

Syllables: home-ward bound-er
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

15

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A vessel making a return trip to its home port or home country.

noun

A person making a return trip to their home country.

noun

A roughly executed stitch used when repairing articles of clothing on a vessel nearing the end of a long voyage.

noun

A goldmine which is highly productive, making the owners rich enough to abandon mining and return to their home country.

Australian usage; Obsolete

Example Sentences

"Here are outward bounders, and homeward bounders, apparently just about to run over each other in every direction[.]"
"In this way a fine homeward bounder, called the Junior, bound to Aberdeen from Callao, laden with a valuable cargo, caught the shore about eight or nine miles to the westward of Boulogne."
""I should suppose," he went on, "that she's a homeward-bounder; from India, say, now?""
"A homeward-bounder should certainly keep to the westward."
"Ring on the homeward bounders, HMAS Sydney (CMDR Michael Van Balen) is coming home."
"[advert] WANTED, to Sell to Homeward-bounders, a splendid King PARROT and Cedar CAGE, £2 10s."

Etymology

* homeward + bound + -er, in reference to the common phrase homeward bound.

Usage

Inflected Forms

homeward bounders (plural) homeward-bounder (alternative)

Questions

What does homeward bounder mean?: A vessel making a return trip to its home port or home country.
Where does homeward bounder come from?: * homeward + bound + -er, in reference to the common phrase homeward bound.

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