ppl. a. Detained by bad weather; prevented by stress of weather from sailing, travelling, or other outdoor activity.
1590. R. Ferris, Dang. Adventure, B 1. There we were wether bound, and constrained to stay full seuenteene dayes.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 334. The messenger who carried those Letters, being weather bound and sea-beaten, could not come so soone.
1667. Lond. Gaz., No. 193/4. The Fleet of Colliers that lay here weather-bound, are now under sail for the Thames.
1726. R. Gale, in Mem. Stukeley (Surtees), I. 187. I lye weatherbound here by a deep snow.
1887. T. A. Trollope, What I remember, I. xvii. 346. Two young Americans … were in the house, equally weather-bound with ourselves.
fig. 1779. Johnson, L. P., Milton. This dependence of the soul upon the seasons … may, I suppose, justly be derided as the fumes of vain imagination…. The author that thinks himself weather-bound will find, with a little help from hellebore, that he is only idle or exhausted.
