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
The break that weather-bound U.S. pilots in the Aleutians had been praying for�some action�came last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
This time the fleets had remained weather-bound, unable to start at all until the golden moments were gone--till opportunity had slid into the past.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
Perhaps Samuel Johnson, LL.D., was near the mark when he said that the author that thinks himself weather-bound will find, with a little help from hellebore, that he is only idle or exhausted.
From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) by O'Shea, John Augustus
Lying weather-bound, stopping up the tent against the driving snow while the wind flits round us, attacking first one side and then another.”
From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Nansen, Fridtjof
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