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outward-bound

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out·ward-bound (outwrd-bound)
adj.
Headed out, as toward the open sea: an outward-bound tanker.
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Adj.1.outward-bound - that is going out or leaving; "the departing train"; "an outward journey"; "outward-bound ships"
outbound, outward
outgoing - leaving a place or a position; "an outgoing steamship"
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From two days to a week saw the end of their money and saw them being carted by the boarding-house masters on board outward-bound ships.
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A red glare came from an outward-bound steamer that was coaling.
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We were now bound to the Gulf of Persia, and from thence to the coast of Coromandel, only to touch at Surat; but the chief of the supercargo's design lay at the Bay of Bengal, where, if he missed his business outward-bound, he was to go out to China, and return to the coast as he came home.
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