port-bound
adjective
Detained in port by bad weather, unfavourable winds, etc.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in Nahum Tate (c1652–1715), poet, playwright, and translator.
- shorn
- shornie
- short
- short-acting
- shortage
- short and sweet
- short-arm
- short-arse
- short back and sides
- short bone
- shortbread
- shortcake
- short-change
- short circuit
- shortcoming
- short commons
- short corner
- short covering
- shortcrust
- shortcrust pastry
- shortcut
- short-dated
- short-day
- short division
- short-eared owl