long home

From Middle English lang ham, lang hame, long hom, longue home.

long home (plural long homes)

1. (poetic) The grave.

   to go to one's long home

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 12:5:

     […] because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners goe about the streets:

   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Israel Hands”, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part V (My Sea Adventure), page 210:

     “Cut me a junk o’ that,” says he, “for I haven’t no knife and hardly strength enough, so be as I had. Ah, Jim, Jim, I reckon I’ve missed stays! Cut me a quid, as’ll likely be the last, lad, for I’m for my long home, and no mistake.”

• J. Hain Friswell, "Long Home", Notes and Queries, 4th s., no. 8 (12 August 1871), p. 125