All 7 Uses of
bound
in
Main Street
- Here—she meditated—is the newest empire of the world; the Northern Middlewest; a land of dairy herds and exquisite lakes, of new automobiles and tar-paper shanties and silos like red towers, of clumsy speech and a hope that is boundless.†
Chpt 3 (definition 1) *
- Had she really bound herself to live, inescapably, in this town called Gopher Prairie?†
Chpt 3 *
- The first-story front of clear glass, the plates cleverly bound at the edges with brass.†
Chpt 4
- Spitting did not identify him with rangers riding the buttes; it merely bound him to Gopher Prairie—to Nat Hicks the tailor and Bert Tybee the bartender.†
Chpt 9
- His leg was thrust out before him, resting on a starch-box and covered with a leather-bound horse-blanket.†
Chpt 15
- For years Carol had been little sister to Vida, and had never in the least known to what degree Vida loved her and hated her and in curious strained ways was bound to her.†
Chpt 20
- Wasn't it because they had been prevented by her caste from bounding on her own trail that they were howling at Fern?†
Chpt 32 (definition 2) *
Definitions:
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(1) (bound as in: out of bounds) a boundary or limit
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(2) (bound as in: The deer bound across the trail.) to leap or jump
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(bound as in: south-bound lanes) traveling in a particular direction or to a specific location