Definition of "weather-bound" [weath•er-bound]

• Delayed, halted, or kept indoors by bad weather. (adjective)

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• "February is a great fly-tying month for many of us otherwise weather-bound northerners."
• ""There's nothing so bad as lying weather-bound like this," continued another; "it takes more out of you than going from morning to night.""
• "But after the army was gathered and come together, we still remained at Aulis weather-bound; and Calchas, the seer, bade us in our perplexity sacrifice my own begotten child Iphigenia to"