homeward-boundadj.n.

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 3^v When, either outward, or homeward bound, they are checked by an East..wind.

1679 Protestant (Domestick) Intelligence 17 Feb. 1/2 A Flemish Ship..being in her Voyage homeward bound from Cadiz, was cast away at a place called Katharine Tarr.

1702 London Gaz. No. 3826/3 With 6 homeward-bound Merchant Ships.

1768 J. Cremer Jrnl. 27 Jan. in R. R. Bellamy Ramblin' Jack (1936) 51 We..returned to Lisbon to bring home the homeward bound Ships.

1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster II. v. 63 The crew..were picked up by a homeward-bound vessel.

1884 J. Colborne With Hicks Pasha in Soudan 14 The extraordinary coffer-fish..preserved and sold at Suez to homeward-bound Anglo-Indians.

1928 Pop. Mech. Jan. 90/1 Stores and offices pour out millions of tired, homeward-bound workers.

1952 E. L. Leeming Road Engin. (ed. 3) xi. 123 The kerb is then raised similarly on the opposite side to accommodate the homeward-bound traffic.

2005 Sea Angler Mar. 85/2 One who makes a point of shivering on the deck of a homeward-bound ferry, watching the receding Irish coast until the last twinkling light has disappeared.

1852 Ainsworth's Mag. 21 251 This day, at noon, we were highly gratified by the announcement of a homeward-bound being seen on the Ice bow.

1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 July 5/1 There is no precaution taken against outward-bounds meeting homeward-bounds?

1914 E. C. Garrett Dyak Chief 39 He's breaking rock all day by the shores o' 'Frisco Bay Where he sees the happy homeward-bounds come through.

1853 W. D. Arnold Oakfield II. 258 They saw a large man-of-war frigate..with the homeward bound pennant streaming almost down to the deck.

1920 R. D. Paine Corsair in War Zone xii. 268 The other yachts were all astir with the expectation of flying their homeward-bound pennants.

2006 Chapel Hill (N. Carolina) Herald (Nexis) 19 Feb. 6 The blue homeward-bound pennant waving at the very top of her mizzenmast.