shipbound

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Have to stay on a ship for a long time

adjective
/ˈʃɪpˌbaʊnd/

: encerrado en el barco

She grew tired of being shipbound and longed for the freedom of walking on a beach.

Examples

During the long ocean voyage, the crew felt increasingly shipbound as they spent weeks confined to the vessel.
Usually I wouldn't care to stay shipbound while on a planet, but I can make exceptions.

Fiction book (1999)
After being shipbound for several weeks, the sailors were eager to finally step onto solid ground.

Surface Forms

shipbound positive

Morphology

shipbound = ship + bound (semi-transparent) = ship + bound

The word is clearly built from 'ship' and 'bound', but the sense of 'bound' is somewhat specialized and the resulting meaning is not fully literal.

Etymology

Shipbound joins ship and bound, where bound often means 'tied to' or 'kept in', just like homebound. So shipbound means 'kept on a ship'.