windbound / ˈwɪndˌbaʊnd /

💦中学词汇风行风行的风行者风向

windbound 的定义

adj. 形容词 adjective
  1. kept from sailing by a wind from the wrong direction or one of too high velocity.

更多windbound例句

  1. Windbound means when the ship is detained in one particular station by contrary winds.
  2. I remarked to him, that every time I had passed that way, I found cause to fear our being windbound on the coasts of Barbary.
  3. On one occasion a collier brig had been windbound for several days in the Yarmouth roads.
  4. The day after this conversation we fell in with several vessels windbound at the entrance of the Channel.
  5. On the third we were all separated, having fallen in with many windbound vessels who required our services.