Citations:weatherbound

English citations of weatherbound

1. (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
   • 1867, W[illiam] H[enry] Smyth, edited by E[dward] Belcher, The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including some more Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc., London: Blackie and Son, Paternoster Row; and Glasgow and Edinburgh, →OCLC, page 724:

     WEATHER-BOUND. Detained by foul winds; our forefathers used the term wæder fæst.

   • 1945, Joanna C[arver] Colcord, Sea Language Comes Ashore, New York, N.Y.: Cornell Maritime Press, OCLC 558034627; republished as Gangway!: Sea Language Comes Ashore, Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, Inc., 2012, ISBN 978-0-486-48223-1, page 160:

     Weather-bound. Of a ship, kept in port and prevented from sailing by adverse weather conditions. Alongshore, it means kept indoors—by a heavy snowfall, etc.

   • 2013, Peter Brodie, Dictionary of Shipping Terms, 6th edition, Abingdon, Oxon.: Informa Law from Routledge, →ISBN:

     Weather-bound Said of a ship which is unable to sail from a port or place because the severity of the weather would make sailing unsafe.