weather-bound traffic.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

For two days the fleet lay weather-bound in the bay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference

A deluge of rain kept them weather-bound for four or five days.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference

Royal was often crowded with weather-bound capitalists and men of business.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference

February is a great fly-tying month for many of us otherwise weather-bound northerners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watch Out for Beetles in Your Fly Tying Gear] Reference

The ships were weather-bound successively at Cowes and at Yarmouth, whence were written those melting epistles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference

Tonight's used broccoli rabe (aka rapini) and made for delicious winter fare for weather-bound leprechauns, dogs and humans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Potato, Cabbage & Rapini Colcannon ◄ | A Veggie Venture] Reference

For many weeks the fleet was weather-bound in the Thames.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference

At Plymouth the fleet delayed weather-bound till August 18.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference

No doubt a traveller, weather-bound like himself at the inn.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Marriage of William Ashe] Reference

One is in a measure prepared for being weather-bound in winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference

I was weather-bound, with the snow already on the ground in Square Island.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference

He had been compelled to return, and there he had to remain weather-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)] Reference

It came on to drift as we sat in our tent, and again we were weather-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scott's Last Expedition Volume I] Reference

It was in a small town in New Jersey that they found themselves weather-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Can't Have Everything] Reference

Why you might be weather-bound or kept there for a month, and what shall I do then?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Station Amusements] Reference

We don't often let ourselves be weather-bound, and I am not going to begin it to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Daring and Danger] Reference

In this exquisite mountain-locked harbor, the vessel was weather-bound for a couple of days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence] Reference

I once was told of a man who had been weather-bound at some port, whence he was starting for the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Records of a Girlhood] Reference

Here, greatly to my disgust, we lay the best part of a week, with a number of other weather-bound vessels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paddy Finn] Reference

AM weather-bound, for it is a martial-spirited night and there is every scourge of wind and snow in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janey Canuck in the West] Reference

'Change; on showery days the Palais Royal was often crowded with weather-bound capitalists and men of business.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Illusions] Reference

A sailor who loves voyaging may say, when weather-bound, "Here rest, unlade the ship, sleep on this grassy bank.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference

"It is not exactly the port in which one would choose to be weather-bound, but we may be thankful if we get there.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Yacht Voyage Round England] Reference

It was fun and frolic from morning till midnight; and no party weather-bound in a hotel ever enjoyed themselves more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock] Reference

Gradually, as the time wore along, one annoying fact was borne in upon my understanding -- that we were weather-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3.] Reference

The author that thinks himself weather-bound will find, with a little help from hellebore, that he is only idle or exhausted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, Cowley] Reference

Nor was the society offered by the residents in the hotel, weather-bound like herself, of a specially enlivening description.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference

I am sure that if each of our weather-bound pilgrims had told his story, we had been as well entertained as those at Canterbury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Italian Journeys] Reference

Except when weather-bound, a state of things which at that time of year occurred not unfrequently, René journeyed daily as far as the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light of Scarthey] Reference

A good many tourists were standing about the door when we arrived, and looked at us with the curiosity of idle and weather-bound people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.] Reference

"There's nothing so bad as lying weather-bound like this," continued another; "it takes more out of you than going from morning to night.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2] Reference

White Horse, where vessels are often weather-bound, and cannot make way against the wind, which sets a current through the narrow channel.    From Wordnik.com.  [After London Or, Wild England] Reference

I exclaimed, assuming the cheerful; 'and I fear I shall be weather-bound for half an hour, if you can afford me shelter during that space.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wuthering Heights] Reference

You see, when you are weather-bound, you might as well have something worth looking at. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [We of the Never-Never] Reference

Admiral weather-bound for eight days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 5] Reference

"I am weather-bound, Jan," said Lucy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Verner's Pride] Reference

The party is weather-bound four months.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai] Reference

'Tis but a sailor's promise, weather-bound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetry Of Robert Browning] Reference

Christmas found them weather-bound at Kecoughtan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings] Reference