storm-stayed

• “The climate of Scotland had not done with them yet: for three days they lay storm-stayed in”

  Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin

• “There was good excuse for this fashion in our grandmother's day, when the post was a slow coach, or a storm-stayed postillion; but the admirable system of our postal service to-day leaves no excuse for the prejudice in favor of the private messenger; and it is not surprising that fashion has yielded to common sense in allowing that many of these cards of courtesy may, with perfect propriety, be sent by post.”

  Etiquette

• “Well, you know we could hardly be so churlish as to shut our doors on storm-stayed travelers: we are very glad that we had it in our power to help them a little.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876

• “When Paul -- who had ridden in early from the little village, where he had been storm-stayed -- had tried to impress a crew, the peon boatman had sworn volubly that no pole would touch bottom and that one might as well try to paddle the town as a heavy canoe against such a flood.”

  The Spinner's Book of Fiction

• “Father decided to return at once with Gerrish, having business in Boston which might go amiss if he should be storm-stayed in West Roxbury.”

  My Friends at Brook Farm

• “The bay was full of storm-stayed vessels, all headed to the wind, close reefed, and straining at their anchors.”

  The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius

• “Finnish wizards used to sell wind to storm-stayed mariners.”

  The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

• “At last my father was storm-stayed one Sunday in a port at the other side of the island.”

  Records of a Family of Engineers

• “A peddler (not the one that had beguiled her Aunt Lizzie) had been storm-stayed with them the winter before, and he had given her these in payment for his lodging.”

  The Second Chance

• “A peddler (not the one that had beguiled her Aunt Lizzie) had been storm-stayed with them the winter before and he had given her these in payment for his lodging.”

  The Second Chance

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