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
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 Webb, Archibald
“It is not exactly the port in which one would choose to be weather-bound, but we may be thankful if we get there.”
From A Yacht Voyage Round England by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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 Nansen, Fridtjof
Nor was the society offered by the residents in the hotel, weather-bound like herself, of a specially enlivening description.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas
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