HOME (4)

Home, adv. 1. 1. To one's home or country; as in the phrases, go home, come home, carry home.
2. 2. Close; closely.
How home the charge reaches us, has been made out. South. They come home to men's business and bosoms. Bacon. 3. 3. To the place where it belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home.
Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. Shak. ☞ Home is often used in the formation of compound words, many of which need no special definition; as, home-brewed, home-built, home-grown, etc. To bring home. See under Bring. — To come home.(a) To touch or affect personally. See under Come. (b) (Naut.) To drag toward the vessel, instead of holding firm, as the cable is shortened; — said of an anchor. — To haul home the sheets of a sail (Naut.), to haul the clews close to the sheave hole. Totten.