weather-bound
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of weather-bound
First recorded in 1580–90
Example Sentences
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They stayed there weather-bound for three nights, most hospitably entertained.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
I was weather-bound by a premature snowstorm for a couple of days, and among my fellow sufferers at the little hostelry were Anthony and his daughter.”
From The Red Symbol by John Ironside
A deluge of rain kept them weather-bound for four or five days.
From French Pathfinders in North America by William Henry Johnson
Once more we had snow-storms, and now lay weather-bound on the south side of the island.
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen
But if the weather-bound camper exhausts this or tires of it, he may turn to gun-cleaning or tackle-mending.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
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