Weatherbound

Quick meaning: Weatherbound is an adjective meaning (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.

Meaning

(often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.

Example Sentences

We shall have to lie here weatherbound more than one twenty-four hours, with the southwest wind beginning work like this.

Next morning a gale was blowing and even the fishing fleet was weatherbound, huddled together in the lee of the outer breakwater as the sea feathered and plumed over the esplanade.

A crowd of Arabs, Zeid's men, weather-bound here on their way to Feisal, ran out when they heard her trumpeting approach, and shouted with joy at so distinguished an entry into the village.

I see in the paper circulated, that the enemy last night used 210 bombers over Great Britain. Have they had losses similar to those we suffered? Or are our aerodromes far more weatherbound than theirs?

Word Forms

• weather-bound

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include winter-bound, windbound, boatbound, shipbound, fogbound, weatherless.

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