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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

Yes, really, cricket: that neglected staple of the British summer, a business of mannered and weather-bound slow-wrought drama, doggedly championed but somehow always reassuringly in retreat.

The meal that evening was a very dull one, and if they did not go to sleep at once after they had gone to bed, certainly there was little fun-making among the weather-bound prisoners.

The sheltered nook we sought already contained a weather-bound vessel.

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.

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.

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