Harbour
[hɑ:bә]
Definition
n. any refuge or shelter: a port for ships—obs. form Har′borough.—v.t. to lodge or entertain: to protect: to possess or indulge as thoughts.—v.i. to take shelter.—n. Har′bourage place of shelter: entertainment.—n.pl. Har′bour-dues charges for the use of a harbour.—n. Har′bourer one who harbours or entertains.—adj. Har′bourless.—n. Har′bour-mas′ter the public officer who has charge of a harbour.—Harbour of refuge a harbour constructed to give shelter to ships on some exposed coast: any protection for one in distress.
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Examples
- I wish him very happy; and I am so sure of his always doing his duty, that though now he may harbour some regret, in the end he must become so. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The Thrush went out of harbour this morning. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The cleaning away of submarine ledges in harbours, such as the great work at Hell Gate in the harbour of New York, has thus been effected. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- When I arrived at the port of Maldonada (for so it is called) there was no ship in the harbour bound for Luggnagg, nor likely to be in some time. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I had not known how to do it well, not understanding how the wind would set when we were out of the harbour. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Genoa Mole and Harbour. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was a cool spot, staid but cheerful, a wonderful place for echoes, and a very harbour from the raging streets. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The cleaning away of submarine ledges in harbours, such as the great work at Hell Gate in the harbour of New York, has thus been effected. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Tyrians used fire-ships against this flotilla, and made sorties from their two harbours. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Beginning life as a stone mason, he rose by his own industry to be a master among architects and a prince among builders of iron bridges, aqueducts, canals, tunnels, harbours and docks. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I have every reason to believe, Sir, that you are harbouring in your house a gross impostor! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He knew that some of these specks even represented Christopher as capable of harbouring designs in 'that head,' and as being a crafty impostor. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- From every cage that harboured red men a thunderous shout went up in answer to his exhortation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- Not a hope of imposition or mistake was harboured anywhere. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Martin harboured an irreligious reluctance to see the approach of Sunday. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The mass of her population was a downtrodden and savagely ignorant peasantry, and she also harboured great masses of very poor Jews. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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