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ˈweather-bound, ppl. a.
Detained by bad weather; prevented by stress of weather from sailing, travelling, or other outdoor activity.
1590R. Ferris Dang. Adventure B 1, There we were wether bound, and constrained to stay full seuenteene dayes. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 334 The messenger who carried those Letters, being weather bound and sea-beaten, could not come so soone. 1667Lond. Gaz. No. 193/4 The Fleet of Colliers that lay here weather⁓bound, are now under sail for the Thames. 1726R. Gale in Mem. Stukeley (Surtees) I. 187, I lye weatherbound here by a deep snow. 1887T. A. Trollope What I remember I. xvii. 346 Two young Americans..were in the house, equally weather-bound with ourselves.
fig.1779Johnson L.P., Milton, This dependence of the soul upon the seasons..may, I suppose, justly be derided as the fumes of vain imagination... The author that thinks himself weather-bound will find, with a little help from hellebore, that he is only idle or exhausted. |