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weather-bound

weather-bound is the alternative form of weatherbound.

Meaning of weatherbound

Adjective

weatherbound (comparative more weatherbound, superlative most weatherbound)

  1. (often) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
    • WEATHERBOUND IN THE SUBURBS [title]. The air is damp, the skies are leaden; / The ominous lull of impending rain / Presses upon me, and seems to deaden / Every sense but a sense of pain. // Hopes of getting again to London / Lapse into utter and grim despair; […]1869, Henry S[ambrooke] Leigh, “Weatherbound in the Suburbs”, in Carols of Cockayne, London: John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, →OCLC, page 99

Questions about weather-bound

What is weather-bound the alternative form of?
Weather-bound is the alternative form of weatherbound.

Words near weather-bound in the dictionary

  1. weather whiplash
  2. weather-beaten
  3. weather-beatenness
  4. weather-bit
  5. weather-bits
  6. weather-bound
  7. weather-gaw
  8. weather-gaws
  9. weather-glass
  10. weather-glasses
  11. weather-gleam

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