ˈwind-bound, a.
[f. wind n.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! |