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weatherbound

Syllables: wea·ther·boundUK/ˈwɛðəbaʊnd/US/ˈwɛðɚbaʊnd/

weatherbound adjective: delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.

weatherbound: delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling
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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
    • [I]n Denmark, a proverbially windy country, the season was exceptionally stormy. In consequence of all this we were frequently weather-bound, as a rule in the least interesting harbours, for several days at a time; […]1889, Edward Frederick Knight, The “Falcon” on the Baltic. A Coasting Voyage from Hammersmith to Copenhagen in a Three-ton Yacht, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →OCLC

Examples of weatherbound in a sentence

  • We shall have to lie here weatherbound more than one twenty-four hours, with the southwest wind beginning work like this.1908, Knud Rasmussen, edited by G. Herring, The People of the Polar North: A Record, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd. Dryden...
  • Next morning a gale was blowing and even the fishing fleet was weatherbound, huddled together in the lee of the outer breakwater as the sea feathered and plumed over the esplanade.1986, Jonathan Raban, Coasting, London: Collins Harvill, ISBN 978-0-00-272119-6; republished London: Picador, 1987, ISBN 978-0-330-29977-0...
  • Or are our aerodromes far more weatherbound than theirs?1995, Geoffrey Williams, Flying through Fire: FIDO – the Fogbuster of World War Two, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publishing...

Forms of weatherbound

comparativemore weatherbound
superlativemost weatherbound
alternative formweather-bound

Origin of weatherbound

From weather + -bound.

Questions about weatherbound

What does weatherbound mean?
Weatherbound means delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
How do you use weatherbound in a sentence?
We shall have to lie here weatherbound more than one twenty-four hours, with the southwest wind beginning work like this.
What part of speech is weatherbound?
Weatherbound is an adjective.
How do you pronounce weatherbound?
Weatherbound is pronounced /ˈwɛðəbaʊnd/ (UK).

Words near weatherbound in the dictionary

  1. weatherboard
  2. weatherboarded
  3. weatherboarding
  4. weatherboardings
  5. weatherboards
  6. weatherbound
  7. Weatherburn
  8. Weatherby
  9. Weatherby brow
  10. Weatherby brows
  11. Weatherby eyebrow

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