单词 | out-and-home |
释义 | out-and-homeadv.adj. A. adv. To one's destination and back home; there and back. ΚΠ 1663 T. Allin Jrnl. 31 Aug. (1939) (modernized text) I. 126 A great Amsterdamer came in and paid £7 10s. light money out and home for 300 tons. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 86 They employing yearly Forty Sail of stout Ships to and from all Parts where they trade, out and home. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 174. ⁋5 The Freight and Assurance out and home. 1784 B. Franklin Let. 18 July They had made a Voyage of six thousand Miles out and home. 1843 J. F. Cooper Ned Myers xv. 182 Our passages, out and home, produced nothing worth mentioning. 1881 W. H. White Autobiogr. Mark Rutherford i. 10 I had the ride in the gig out and home. 1946 J. Masefield Poems 296 Forever jealous racers, out and home. 1986 Jrnl. Animal Ecol. 55 12 The common element is the two-way motion out-and-home. B. adj. 1. Of a journey or its course or path: to a destination and then returning home (usually by the same route). Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [phrase] > out and back out-and-home1859 out-and-return1963 1859 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 31 Dec. 106/1 A steam-ship (A) performed out and home voyages amounting to 7,200 nautical miles in 652 hours. 1899 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Oct. 9/2 This is a world's record for a lady rider over an out-and-home course. 1909 Daily Chron. 31 July 6/5 They will content themselves with short out-and-home rides through the lanes of North-West Middlesex and Hertfordshire. 1968 Greece & Rome 15 113 An out-and-home course with a left-hand turn around a distant tree-trunk. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [adjective] > home or away home1826 home-and-home1829 away1886 out-and-home1887 road1896 1887 F. Gale Game of Cricket v. i. 51 The principal innkeeper and a few good local players inaugurated occasionally good out and home matches, in the season. 1895 Daily News 10 Dec. 5/4 It may be necessary..to reduce the minimum of eight out-and-home matches at present insisted on by the M.C.C. Committee. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.adj.1663 |
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