homeward bounder

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A vessel making a return trip to its home port or home country.
    — Here are outward bounders, and homeward bounders, apparently just about to run over each other in every direction[.]
  2. A person making a return trip to their home country.
    — [advert] WANTED, to Sell to Homeward-bounders, a splendid King PARROT and Cedar CAGE, £2 10s.
  3. A roughly executed stitch used when repairing articles of clothing on a vessel nearing the end of a long voyage.
    — [D]o you for one moment believe that the ‘homeward bounders’ in Mrs. Faul's needlework was the head and front of Mr. Flannery's offending?
  4. A goldmine which is highly productive, making the owners rich enough to abandon mining and return to their home country. Australia,obsolete
    — A rich hole is now known as a "homeward bounder," — a name expressive of pleasure to the winner of the prize, but of sinister significance to those who remain behind.

词形变化

homeward bounders plural homeward-bounder alternative

词源

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