Definition of "frost-bound" [frost-bound]

• Bound or confined by frost.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "On one of the lakes a swan was asleep; its long back was white as the snow of the frost-bound steppes, while glow-worms gleamed like diamonds in the bluish shadow at the base of a statue."
• "Uncle John Stewart is a type of a New Englander not often found in frost-bound latitudes."
• "But Lord Evandale is a malignant, of heart like flint, and brow like adamant; the goods of the world fall on him like leaves on the frost-bound earth, and unmoved he will see them whirled off by the first wind."