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windbound

/wind-bound/US // ˈwɪndˌbaʊnd //UK // (ˈwɪndˌbaʊnd) //

风行,风行的,风行者,风向

Definitions

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

Examples

  • Windbound means when the ship is detained in one particular station by contrary winds.

  • 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.

  • On one occasion a collier brig had been windbound for several days in the Yarmouth roads.

  • The day after this conversation we fell in with several vessels windbound at the entrance of the Channel.

  • On the third we were all separated, having fallen in with many windbound vessels who required our services.