[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
home base home plate home base home plate home farm grounds 
home lot home rule home ruler home stretch home thrust 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
to be on the stretch home stretch home 

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