a. [BOUND ppl. a.2]
† 1. Allusive nonce-use. Unable to shed tears.
Perh. merely coined to match the corresponding use of wind-bound in the context. But it is possible that sense 2 was current in Fuller’s time.
1646. Fuller, Wounded Consc. (1647), 62. And though thou beest water-bound, be not wind-bound also, sigh, where thou canst not sob.
2. Confined or detained by floods. Cf. WIND-BOUND a.
1862. New York Tribune, 30 April, 1/3. While water-bound, it [a foraging party] was attacked by guerrillas.
3. Of clay: ? Impervious to water. ? Obs.
1710. Hilman, Tusser Rediv., Oct. (1744), 136. Yet in some Years it [the clay] is very apt to be Water-bound and Steely.
4. Of macadam roads: Solidified by rolling and watering.
1909. Westm. Gaz., 30 Aug., 2/1. Where water is scarce … for the re-coating of a water-bound road.
1919. Glasgow Her., 24 June, 4. Mr. Drummond has no hesitation in calling for the abolition of the long-established water-bound macadam.
