tide-bound

[ tahyd-bound ]

adjectiveNautical.
  1. (of a vessel) grounded or otherwise confined at low tide.

Origin of tide-bound

1
First recorded in 1905–10

Words Nearby tide-bound

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How to use tide-bound in a sentence

  • I know they used to get becalmed and tide-bound out here and the sailors would come ashore and raid fruit orchards.

    My Boyhood | John Burroughs