weather-bound

American  

[weth-er-bound] / ˈwɛð ərˌbaʊnd /

adjective

1. delayed or shut in by bad weather.

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weather-bound British  

adjective

1. (of a vessel, aircraft, etc) delayed by bad weather

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Etymology

Origin of weather-bound

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

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weather-bound

They stayed there weather-bound for three nights, most hospitably entertained.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

Here, greatly to my disgust, we lay the best part of a week, with a number of other weather-bound vessels.

From Paddy Finn by Archibald Webb

An' where the ruslèn straw did sound So dry, a-shelter'd in the lew, I staïed alwone, an' weather-bound, An' thought on times, long years agoo, Wi' water-floods on flow'rless ground.

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

We came here, flying from the Florence tramontana, at the very close of November, on the Perugia road, after having been weather-bound at Casa Guidi till we almost gave up our Roman plan.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon

But for a few days, contrary winds held him weather-bound.

From Silent Struggles by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens