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Webster 1913 Edition
Bounder
Bound′er
(bound′ẽr)
, Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, limits; a boundary.
Sir T. Herbert.
Webster 1828 Edition
Bounder
BOUND'ER
,Noun.
Definition 2024
bounder
bounder
English
Alternative forms
Noun
bounder (plural bounders)
- Something that bounds or jumps.
- (Britain, dated) A dishonourable man; a cad.
- A social climber.
- That which limits; a boundary.
- 1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) Atheomastix p.269:
- Let the mountaine Pyrenaeus diuide the French, and Spaniards: and the wildernesse of Sand the Aethiopians, from Aegyptians. And in like manner also be all other Kingdomes: they are bound within their bounders, as it were in bands; and shut-vp within their limits, as it were in prison.
- 1638 Martin Fotherby (Iacob Blome: London) Atheomastix p.269:
- (Britain, obsolete, colloquial) A four-wheeled type of dogcart or cabriolet