boundling

plural boundlings

1. nonstandardrareOne who is bound.

   The astronauts in Sky Lab made some films of acrobatics in a zero-gravity environment that amazed us earth-boundlings.

   1993, Rodney Cole, So you want to take physics

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   Always, always look in the darkest thickets for the boundlings, a curious myth in which babies are rescued from their light covering of troubles if found in time.

   1991, Douglas Oliver, Three variations on the theme of harm

   […] sing old songs and have always had the desire to make love to middle-aged women in the backseat of old cars. But most of all, I like old airplanes. In some strange way they open up a door to the past that is closed to earth boundlings.

   2002, Karl Finatzer, Bushpilots tales

plural boundlings

1. humorousnonce wordA little bounder.

   And we were starting to hook ourselves on to the tail end of the dwindling procession, quite on friendly terms, when to my horror that young English cadlet — or boundling, which you will — strolled calmly out in front of us, […]

   1909, Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, Set in silver