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▪ I. bounder, n.1|ˈbaʊndə(r)|
Also 6 bowndor, 7 boundier.
[f. bound v.1 + -er1: but see sense 4.]
I.
1. One who sets or marks out bounds or limits. lit. and fig.
1570Levins Manip. 73 A Bounder, terminator. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 745 Umpiers and Bounders between diuerse Shires. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. vii. §6 (1622) 274 The Bounder of all these, is onely God himselfe: who..is the Bounder of all things.
†2. One who occupies a district bounding another, a borderer. Obs.
1542Udall Erasm. Apophth. 105 b, The bordreers or bounders inhabityng round about any place are called in greke αµϕικτυονες.
†3. One who occupies a ‘bound’ or tract of tin-ore ground. See bound n.1 3 c. ? Obs.
1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3773/1 The humble Address of the Landlords, Bounders, Adventurers, and Miners, within the County of Cornwal. 1708Ibid. No. 4458/1 The Owners, Bounders, Adventurers..concerned in Tin..at Truroe.
II.
4. A limit, a boundary; a landmark: prob. a corruption of boundure [cf. border], taken as bounder ‘that which bounds’. arch. or dial.
1505Will in Ripon Ch. Acts 304 The howse..and the bowndor therof. 1564Grindal Fun. Serm. Wks. (1843) 27 They..only builded it for a bounder and for a testimony. 1598Stow Surv. xxxiii. (1603) 293 The Postes there placed as a Bounder. 1619J. King Serm. 14 Mine old age,—for that is the bounder of nature. 1622–62Heylin Cosmogr. ii. (1682) 135 The River Ob, the East Bounder of Russia. 1635R. Brathwait Arcad. Pr. 139 From the flowry boundiers of his Empire. 1839Stonehouse Axholme 64 The inquisition of ‘the bounder’ of Hatfield Chase, taken in 1607. 1855Whitby Gloss., Bounders, landmarks or boundaries, fences.
5. attrib. and Comb., as bounder-mark, bounder-stone.
1666Peramb. Danby in Atkinson Provinc. Danby (1863) The exact distance between each bounder mark and other. 1634Wither Emblemes 161 The bounder-stones held sacred heretofore. 1672–5T. Comber Comp. Temple (1702) 567 To seize on his Neighbour's Field, or remove his Bounder-stone. 1863Atkinson Provinc. Danby, Bounder-stoups, upright stones..serving to mark limits or boundaries.
▪ II. bounder, n.2|ˈbaʊndə(r)|
[f. bound v.2 + -er1.]
†1. slang. A four-wheeled cab or trap, so called from the bounding motion of the vehicle in passing over rough roads. Obs.
1842Hints to Freshmen (Hotten, 1865), The man who drives has a well-appointed ‘bounder’ of his own. 1859Hotten Dict. Slang, Bounder, a four wheel cab. 1865Ibid., Bounder,..a University term for a trap.
2. A person of objectionable manners or anti-social behaviour; a cad. Also in milder use as a term of playful abuse. (Occas. applied to a woman.) colloq.
a1889in Barrère & Leland Dict. Slang (1889) s.v., If I ordered the particular hat I desired I should be taken for a bounder. 1889Ibid., Bounder (university), a student whose manners are despised by the soi-disant élite, or who is beyond the boundary of good fellowship{ddd}(society), a swell, a stylish fellow, but of a very vulgar type. 1890Times 2 May 13/5 To speak of a man as a bounder is to allude to him as an outsider or cad. 1899W. Archer Study & Stage 48 That is an anti-social proceeding, the conduct of a ‘bounder’. 1912A. Brazil New Girl at St. Chad's viii. 126 Flossie is a bounder! 1917J. Adams Student's Guide 27 A prig is one who has too much self-respect, a bounder one who has too little. 1919Wodehouse Damsel in Distress vi. 70 He had been marched up the Haymarket in the full sight of all London by a bounder of a policeman. 1930W. S. Maugham Cakes & Ale xvii. 195 Women..adore a bounder.
▪ III. † ˈbounder, v. Obs.
[f. bounder n.1]
To bound.
1636N. Riding Rec. IV. 51 A place boundering on Holtby. 1797T. Bewick Brit. Birds I. 292 The chin and upper part of the neck are yellow, boundered by a black line. |