| 单词 |
wind-bound |
| 释义 |
ˈwind-bound, a.
[f. wind n.1 + bound ppl. a.2]
Detained by contrary or stormy winds.
1588Hunsdon in Archæologia XXX. 169 Having been..soe wind-bound, as he could by no meanes gett out of the haven. c1645Howell Lett. ii. lx. (1890) 475 Being now wind-bound for Africk. a1718Prior Mercury & Cupid 46 No Matter tho' This Fleet be lost; Or That lie wind-bound on the Coast. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. i. 9 Next morning the wind-bound vessels were crowding the harbour of refuge as before. 1875Zoologist Ser. ii. X. 4712 As to swallows or martins being wind-bound..I cannot entertain the idea. 1899Bridges 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.
1614Gorges Lucan v. 187 He findes the hauens mouth winde-bound [orig. clausas ventis brumalibus undas].
c. fig. or in fig. context.
1646Fuller Wounded Consc. ix. 62 Though thou beest water-bound, be not wind-bound also. 1658–9in 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. 1675Cocker Morals 66 Wind-bound in the port of Sorrow. 1711Addison Spect. No. 211 ⁋9 When I sit still without doing any thing, his Affairs forsooth are Wind-bound. 1779in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 408 That the papers..he wants, lye wind-bound at Sir James Harris's. 1901C. M. Masterman Folia Dispersa 17 My Soul, windbound, in her dull haven lies! |
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