stormbound en · ADJ
Etymology
From storm + bound.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of a ship) Caught in a storm, so that proper navigation is impossible.
When he and the boy fished together they usually spoke only when it was necessary. They talked at night or when they were storm-bound by bad weather.
1952 September 1, Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 39: