ˈoutward-ˈbounder
1. An outward-bound vessel. colloq.
| 1851 H. Melville Moby Dick II. xi. 72 The long absent ship, the outward-bounder, perhaps, has letters on board. 1884 Clark Russell Jack's Courtship xix, An outward-bounder she was from the vane above the truck [etc.]. 1888 Daily News 27 June 5/5 Outward-bounders to the Colonies, East Indies, China, Japan, and the Java Seas never go within three hundred miles of Cape L'Agulhas. |
2. (With capital initials.) A pupil at an ‘Outward Bound’ school; an advocate of such schools and their methods.
| 1961 Sunday Times 19 Feb. 34/2 Knowing how to tie reef-knots,..with all the other indispensable appurtenances of the Outward Bounder. Ibid. 26 Feb. 39/3 We ‘intelligent’ talkers have to thank the ‘Outward Bounders’ for the liberty and freedom to be so. |