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Weather-bound   /wˈɛðər-baʊnd/   Listen
Weather-bound

adjective
1.
Delayed or shut in by bad weather.  "Irritable weather-bound children"






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"Weather-bound" Quotes from Famous Books



... liable to be cut short in the midst; just at the point where I broke off, Lord and Lady W—— came to fetch us to Heaton, and until this moment, when I am quietly seated in Birmingham, I have not been able to resume the thread of my discourse. I once was told of a man who had been weather-bound at some port, whence he was starting for the West Indies; he was standing on the wharf, telling a long story to a friend, when a fair wind sprang up and he had to hurry on board. Two years after, returning ...
— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble



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