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home stretch
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Home stretch
(gcide) | Home \Home\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic;
not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
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2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
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3. (Games) In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a
progress; goal; as:
(a) (Baseball) The plate at which the batter stands; same
as home base and home plate.
(b) (Lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an
opponent's goal; also, the player.
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Home base or Home plate (Baseball), the base at which the
batter stands when batting, and which is the last base to
be reached in scoring a run.
Home farm, grounds, etc., the farm, grounds, etc.,
adjacent to the residence of the owner.
Home lot, an inclosed plot on which the owner's home
stands. [U. S.]
Home rule, rule or government of an appendent or dependent
country, as to all local and internal legislation, by
means of a governing power vested in the people within the
country itself, in contradistinction to a government
established by the dominant country; as, home rule in
Ireland. Also used adjectively; as, home-rule members of
Parliament.
Home ruler, one who favors or advocates home rule.
Home stretch (Sport.), that part of a race course between
the last curve and the winning post.
Home thrust, a well directed or effective thrust; one that
wounds in a vital part; hence, in controversy, a personal
attack.
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Home stretch
(gcide) | Stretch \Stretch\, n.
1. Act of stretching, or state of being stretched; reach;
effort; struggle; strain; as, a stretch of the limbs; a
stretch of the imagination.
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By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain.
--Dryden.
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Those put a lawful authority upon the stretch, to
the abuse of yower, under the color of prerogative.
--L'Estrange.
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2. A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time;
as, grassy stretches of land.
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A great stretch of cultivated country. --W. Black.
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But all of them left me a week at a stretch. --E.
Eggleston.
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3. The extent to which anything may be stretched.
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Quotations, in their utmost stretch, can signify no
more than that Luther lay under severe agonies of
mind. --Atterbury.
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This is the utmost stretch that nature can.
--Granville.
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4. (Naut.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one
tack; a tack or board.
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5. Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal.
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To be on the stretch, to be obliged to use one's utmost
powers.
Home stretch. See under Home, a.
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