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1 —2 uses as in:
out of bounds; bounded on the east
Definition
a boundary or limit
- Nig, equally friendly, though less demonstrative, was a huge black dog, half bloodhound and half deerhound, with eyes that laughed and a boundless good nature.Chapter 6 — For the Love of a Man (6% in)
- To Buck it was boundless delight, this hunting, fishing, and indefinite wandering through strange places.Chapter 7 — The Sounding of the Call (6% in)
There are no more uses of "bound" flagged with this meaning in The Call of the Wild.
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exact meaning not specified
- Man and the claims of man no longer bound him.Chapter 7 — The Sounding of the Call (86% in)
- The muscles of his whole body contracted spasmodically and instinctively, the hair on his neck and shoulders stood on end, and with a ferocious snarl he bounded straight up into the blinding day, the snow flying about him in a flashing cloud.Chapter 2 — The Law of Club and Fang (50% in)
- At a bound Buck took up the duties of leadership; and where judgment was required, and quick thinking and quick acting, he showed himself the superior even of Spitz, of whom Francois had never seen an equal.Chapter 4 — Who Has Won to Mastership (23% in)
- The lightened sled bounded on its side behind them.Chapter 5 — The Toil of Trace and Trail (29% in)
- The Yukon was straining to break loose the ice that bound it down.Chapter 5 — The Toil of Trace and Trail (79% in)
- He did not pause to worry the victim, but ripped in passing, with the next bound tearing wide the throat of a second man.Chapter 7 — The Sounding of the Call (76% in)
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