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windbound

[ wind-bound ]

adjective

  1. (of a sailing ship, sailboat, or the like) kept from sailing by a wind from the wrong direction or one of too high velocity.


windbound

/ ˈwɪndˌbaʊnd /

adjective

  1. (of a sailing vessel) prevented from sailing by an unfavourable wind
“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 windbound1

First recorded in 1580–90; wind 1 + -bound 1
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Example Sentences

Windbound means when the ship is detained in one particular station by contrary winds.

I remarked to him, that every time I had passed that way, I found cause to fear our being windbound on the coasts of Barbary.

On one occasion a collier brig had been windbound for several days in the Yarmouth roads.

The day after this conversation we fell in with several vessels windbound at the entrance of the Channel.

On the third we were all separated, having fallen in with many windbound vessels who required our services.

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