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waterbound

waterbound adjective: surrounded by water; restricted from movement because of water.

Adjective

waterbound (not comparable)

  1. Surrounded by water; restricted from movement because of water.
    • Waterbound on a stranger's shore / River, rising to my door / Carried my home to the field below / I was waterbound, nowhere to go2004, Dirk Powell, “Waterbound”, in Time Again
  2. Restricted to water.
    • Waterbound transportation could well gain a significant boost in interest from industry, and become a competitive alternative for road and rail transportation, not only by reducing travel time but also by offering accurate estimates of the expected traveltime for each ship.2015, Jannes Verstichel, Greet Van den Berghe, “Scheduling serial locks: A green wave for waterbound logistics.”, in Sustainable logistics and supply chains: Innovations and integral...
  3. Reinforced with water.
    • Waterbound macadam is an old construction technique originating with John Loudon McAdam. The single-sized coarse aggregate is placed and compacted separately on a prepared subbase before the voids are filled with fines, and the material is then compacted and slushed, hence the name waterbound...1986, Emile Horak, Ralph H. H. Triebel, “Waterbound macadam as a base and a drainage layer”, in Transportation Research Record, volume 1055, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2024, page 45

Forms of waterbound

alternative formwater-bound

Origin of waterbound

From water + -bound.

Questions about waterbound

What does waterbound mean?
Waterbound means surrounded by water; restricted from movement because of water.
What part of speech is waterbound?
Waterbound is an adjective.

Words near waterbound in the dictionary

  1. Waterboro
  2. waterbottle
  3. waterbottles
  4. waterbouget
  5. waterbougets
  6. waterbound
  7. waterboy
  8. waterboys
  9. waterbrash
  10. waterbreak
  11. waterbreaks

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