eastboundadj.adv.n.
/ˈiːs(t)baʊnd/, U.S. /ˈis(t)ˌbaʊnd/ A. adj.
Bound or directed eastwards; travelling east. Also: connected with travel in this direction.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [adjective] > to specific point of compass
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1871 Cambr. City (Indiana) Tribune 10 Aug. 2/4 The East-bound train was coming down the grade between here and College Corner.
1874 Times 18 Dec. 4/6 The Grand Trunk Company..agreed to abide by certain fixed rates upon east-bound and west-bound traffic.
1905 R. Kipling Actions & Reactions (1909) 125 A Planet liner, east bound, heaves up in a superb spiral.
1952 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 9 July 2/5 The dangerous, right-angular curve leads eastbound traffic across the tracks.
1987 Motive Power Nov. 22/1 The first eastbound tube train from King's Cross was a Metropolitan to Whitechapel.
2009 T. Pynchon Inherent Vice ii. 19 The eastbound lanes teemed with VW buses.
B. adv.
Towards the east; in an easterly direction.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [adverb]
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1886 Times 8 Oct. 3/1 While journeying along over the prairie there passed us east-bound a train of freight cars laden with tea.
1906 N.Y. Times 19 Aug. 2/6 An automobile..was going eastbound for Montauk.
1967 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 24 Sept. 54/2 Flying eastbound, you gain a day every time you cross the International Date Line.
2007 J. Hall Red Wall v. 103 A half hour later, they were driving eastbound on Marine Drive when they spotted my police car about ten blocks away.
C. n.
An eastbound train.
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > going in specific direction
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1892 Northeastern Reporter 30 256/2 Plaintiff had been waiting to cross while the east-bound was passing.
1909 R. A. Wason Happy Hawkins 222 This time the west-bound had to take a sidin' and wait twenty minutes for the east-bound.
1942 H. Drake-Brockman Kaditcha in B. Davis Coast to Coast (1943) 168 The east-bound was on the way towards Wallu.
1980 M. Robinson Housekeeping xi. 216 We clambered down onto the rocks just before the eastbound rumbled out of the woods.
2003 B. Solomon Railroad Signaling 29/2 The eastbound failed to arrive on schedule.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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