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boatbound

boatbound adjective: restricted to a boat, unable to leave it.

Adjective

boatbound (not comparable)

  1. Restricted to a boat, unable to leave it.
    • But she also describes being boatbound the whole time as constraining: […]2018, Susan Honeyman, Perils of Protection: Shipwrecks, Orphans, and Children's Rights

Origin of boatbound

From boat + bound.

Questions about boatbound

What does boatbound mean?
Boatbound means restricted to a boat, unable to leave it.
What part of speech is boatbound?
Boatbound is an adjective.

Words near boatbound in the dictionary

  1. boatages
  2. boatbearer
  3. boatbearers
  4. boatbill
  5. boatbills
  6. boatbound
  7. boatbuilder
  8. boatbuilders
  9. boatbuilding
  10. boatbuildings
  11. boatcraft

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