2. Verb. (third-person singular of rebound) ¹
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Definition of Rebounds
1. rebound [v] - See also: rebound
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rebounds
Literary usage of Rebounds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen by Thomas Seccombe, William Strang, J. B. Clark (1895)
"... which he throws at the bears, rebounds and flies up to the moon; brings it
back by an ingenious invention ; falls to the earth on his return, ..."
2. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"... and yet rebounds to Thee; Thine and His Temples jointly Crown'd: elsewhere Thou
... rebounds ..."
3. Roger of Wendover's Flowers of History: Comprising the History of England by Matthew Paris, Roger (1849)
"... unlooked-for calamities, disgrace rebounds on the Father and the Son, the
Redeemer and the redeemed, on Christ and on the people of Christ: We therefore ..."
4. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"Delia, each cave and c. rock rebounds A. 50 Eclipse. And op'd those eyes that
must f. the day RL i. 14 Eclips'd. For envy'd Wit, like Sol c., makes known EC ..."
5. Milch Cows and Dairy Farming, Comprising the Breeds, Breeding, and by Thomas Horsfall, Charles Louis Flint (1888)
"... it rebounds an'' thus saves considerable expenditure of power. Fig. 10'-i
CHURNING WITH THE TREADLE LEVER. — In many places the churn is put in motion ..."
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