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
It contained the mate of the schooner Industry, of New Bedford, who informed us that she had been lying there, weather-bound, for nearly a month.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
I was weather-bound, with the snow already on the ground in Square Island Harbour.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir
The ship that carried Philip and Juana was driven by the storm into Melcombe Regis, on the Dorset coast, on the 17th January 1506, and lay there weather-bound for some time.
From The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History by Hume, Martin Andrew Sharp
Grandma was weather-bound along with her young turkeys in the granary.
From St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11 by Dodge, Mary Mapes
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