weather-bound
delayed or shut in by bad weather.
Origin of weather-bound
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How to use weather-bound in a sentence
But if the weather-bound camper exhausts this or tires of it, he may turn to gun-cleaning or tackle-mending.
In New England Fields and Woods | Rowland E. RobinsonIt is not exactly the port in which one would choose to be weather-bound, but we may be thankful if we get there.
A Yacht Voyage Round England | W.H.G. KingstonNor was the society offered by the residents in the hotel, weather-bound like herself, of a specially enlivening description.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady | Lucas MaletThe ships were weather-bound successively at Cowes and at Yarmouth, whence were written those melting epistles.
I was weather-bound, with the snow already on the ground in Square Island Harbour.
A Labrador Doctor | Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
British Dictionary definitions for weather-bound
(of a vessel, aircraft, etc) delayed by bad weather
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