upbound

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   moving upward, upstream, or in a direction conventionally regarded as up

   The upbound steamboat struggled against the river current.

2. 2
   adv

   upward or upstream

   The freighter traveled upbound through the locks.

A compound of up + bound, with bound meaning 'going or intending to go toward.' In transport and river language, upbound describes movement upstream or toward the conventionally upper end of a route.

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