Winter-bound

Quick meaning: Winter-bound is an adjective meaning Hampered, curtailed, or trapped by winter weather.

Meaning

Hampered, curtailed, or trapped by winter weather.

Example Sentences

They walked for miles each day, in the churches, galleries and alleys of a winter-bound Venice largely free of tourists, happy in their own company.

But all the eating up of shoo-fly pie, and the cooking up of gauzy cumuli of pink candy, and the toffeeing of crab apples, couldn't hide the fact that we were winter-bound.

The Commons teemed with airily dressed mothers and unjacketed businessmen, the emotional gloom of a winter-bound populace exposed by the sun to be as seasonally fragile as ice.

If the Skaldi are overly fond of wagering, bickering and drinking among themselves, I learned why: When the men are winter-bound in the confines of the great hall, there is naught else to be done.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include weatherbound, housebound, icebound, hamleted, winterless, fogbound.

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