'Home stretch' definitions:
Definition of 'Home stretch'
From: GCIDE
- Home \Home\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Home stretch'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- By stretch of arms the distant shore to gain. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Those put a lawful authority upon the stretch, to the abuse of yower, under the color of prerogative. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A continuous line or surface; a continuous space of time; as, grassy stretches of land. [1913 Webster]
- A great stretch of cultivated country. --W. Black. [1913 Webster]
- But all of them left me a week at a stretch. --E. Eggleston. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The extent to which anything may be stretched. [1913 Webster]
- Quotations, in their utmost stretch, can signify no more than that Luther lay under severe agonies of mind. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
- This is the utmost stretch that nature can. --Granville. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Naut.) The reach or extent of a vessel's progress on one tack; a tack or board. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Course; direction; as, the stretch of seams of coal. [1913 Webster]
- To be on the stretch, to be obliged to use one's utmost powers.
- Home stretch. See under Home, a. [1913 Webster]