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Boundling vs Bounding - What's the difference?

boundling | bounding |

As nouns the difference between boundling and bounding

is that boundling is one who is bound while bounding is (uncountable) the use of fire protection products within limits determined by scientific tests.

As a verb bounding is

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boundling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who is bound.
  • *1909 , Charles Norris Williamson, Alice Muriel Williamson, Set in silver :
    • 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, [...]
  • *1991 , Douglas Oliver, Three variations on the theme of harm :
    • 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.
  • *1993 , Rodney Cole, So you want to take physics :
    • The astronauts in Sky Lab made some films of acrobatics in a zero-gravity environment that amazed us earth-boundlings .
  • *2002 , Karl Finatzer, Bushpilots tales :
    • [...] 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 .

    bounding

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

  • (uncountable) The use of fire protection products within limits determined by scientific tests.
  • A boundary.
  • * Bishop Beveridge
    • Without buttings or boundings on any side.

    References

    * NRC SECY-00-0080: "bounding fire tests for the myriad of fire seal configurations"