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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of weather-bound1

First recorded in 1580–90
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Example Sentences

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

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

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

The 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.

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