The Collaborative International Dictionary
Home \Home\, a.
Of or pertaining to one's dwelling or country; domestic; not foreign; as home manufactures; home comforts.
Close; personal; pointed; as, a home thrust.
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(Games) In various games, the ultimate point aimed at in a progress; goal; as:
(Baseball) The plate at which the batter stands; same as home base and home plate.
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(Lacrosse) The place of a player in front of an opponent's goal; also, the player.
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A well directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part. 2 A personal attack.
Usage examples of "home thrust".
I could not see their faces, but I could see their bottoms and such an enormous pair of balls hanging and quite hiding any part of the cunt which might otherwise, perhaps, have been seen when the prick to which they belonged was drawn out of it as far as could be before the next home thrust, that had not Soubratie told me it was the colonel, I should have guessed it was he.
You give me rather a home thrust when you ask if I would marry, at the gallow's foot, a young lady whom I have seen but once.
The drow kept in constant motion, dancing around to each flank as the opportunity allowed, driving home thrust after thrust into the helpless monster.