weather-bound

[ weth-er-bound ]

adjective

1. delayed or shut in by bad weather.

weather-bound

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of weather-bound¹

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

But if the weather-bound camper exhausts this or tires of it, he may turn to gun-cleaning or tackle-mending.

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It is not exactly the port in which one would choose to be weather-bound, but we may be thankful if we get there.

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Nor was the society offered by the residents in the hotel, weather-bound like herself, of a specially enlivening description.

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The ships were weather-bound successively at Cowes and at Yarmouth, whence were written those melting epistles.

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I was weather-bound, with the snow already on the ground in Square Island Harbour.

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