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Definition of Stormbound
1. Adjective. Delayed or confined or cut off by a storm. "The airport was filled with stormbound passengers"
Definition of Stormbound
1. Adjective. (context: of a ship) Caught in a storm, so that proper navigation is impossible. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stormbound
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stormbound
Literary usage of Stormbound
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gold Hunting in Alaska by Joseph Grinnell (1901)
"They are now stormbound, and two of them. Phillips and La Voy, are with us.
They will have hard sledding back again unless it thaws enough to form a crust. ..."
2. The Shoe and Canoe: Or Pictures of Travel in the Canadas ; with Facts and by John Jeremiah Bigsby (1850)
"... Fishermen—The Gull's Nest—Crowd* of Isles—stormbound—Indian Grandmother and
her Coracle—Indian Home — Parry'• Sound — Labrador ..."
3. The shoe and canoe; or, Pictures of travel in the Canadas by John Jeremiah Bigsby (1850)
"General Sketch—Canoe-voyage along North Coast of Huron— Giant's Tomb—Indian
Fishermen—The Gull's Nest—Crowds of Isles—stormbound—Indian Grandmother and her ..."
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