a. [f. WIND sb.1 + BOUND ppl. a.2] Detained by contrary or stormy winds.
1588. Hunsdon, in Archæologia, XXX. 169. Having been … soe wind-bound, as he could by no meanes gett out of the haven.
c. 1645. Howell, Lett., II. lx. (1890), 475. Being now wind-bound for Africk.
a. 1718. Prior, Mercury & Cupid, 46. No Matter tho’ This Fleet be lost; Or That lie wind-bound on the Coast.
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., i. 9. Next morning the wind-bound vessels were crowding the harbour of refuge as before.
1875. Zoologist, Ser. II. X. 4712. As to swallows or martins being wind-bound … I cannot entertain the idea.
1899. Bridges, New P., Summer-ho. Mound, 35. Brigs and barques that windbound ride At their taut cables heading to the tide.
† b. Stopped or rendered inaccessible by contrary winds. Obs. rare.
1614. Gorges, Lucan, V. 187. He findes the hauens mouth winde-bound [orig. clausas ventis brumalibus undas].
c. fig. or in fig. context.
1646. Fuller, Wounded Consc., ix. 62. Though thou beest water-bound, be not wind-bound also.
1658–9. in Burton’s Diary (1828), IV. 30. They, being now in possession, may be admitted, de bene esse; else you are wind-bound. You cannot do aught without them.
1675. Cocker, Morals, 66. Wind-bound in the port of Sorrow.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 211, ¶ 9. When I sit still without doing any thing, his Affairs forsooth are Wind-bound.
1779. in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden), 408. That the papers … he wants, lye wind-bound at Sir James Harris’s.
1901. C. M. Masterman, Folia Dispersa, 17. My Soul, windbound, in her dull haven lies!
