weather-bound

American  

[weth-er-bound] / ˈwɛð ərˌbaʊnd /

adjective

1. delayed or shut in by bad weather.

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weather-bound British  

adjective

1. (of a vessel, aircraft, etc) delayed by bad weather

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Etymology

Origin of weather-bound

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

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

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

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

Here, greatly to my disgust, we lay the best part of a week, with a number of other weather-bound vessels.

From Paddy Finn by Webb, Archibald