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noun

Harbor n. (Written also harbour)

A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter. "(A grove) fair harbour that them seems." "For harbor at a thousand doors they knocked."

Specif.: A lodging place; an inn. (Obs.)

(Astrol.) The mansion of a heavenly body. (Obs.)

A portion of a sea, a lake, or other large body of water, either landlocked or artificially protected so as to be a place of safety for vessels in stormy weather; a port or haven.

(Glass Works) A mixing box for materials.

Harbor dues (Naut.), fees paid for the use of a harbor.

Harbor seal (Zool.), the common seal.

Harbor watch, a watch set when a vessel is in port; an anchor watch.

verb

Harbor v. t. (past & past part. harbored; pres. part. harboring) (Written also harbour) To afford lodging to; to entertain as a guest; to shelter; to receive; to give a refuge to; to indulge or cherish (a thought or feeling, esp. an ill thought); as, to harbor a grudge. "Any place that harbors men." "The bare suspicion made it treason to harbor the person suspected." "Let not your gentle breast harbor one thought of outrage."

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"Harbour" Quotes from Famous Books

... the boat, running through a narrow opening among the rocks into a small circular harbour not more than fifty yards in diameter, rested its keel gently on a little bed of pure yellow sand. The shore there was so densely covered with bushes that the harbour might easily have been passed without ...

— Blown to Bits - or, The Lonely Man of Rakata • Robert Michael Ballantyne

... containing forty acres, the walls of which were ten feet high. At this end were eight openings or gateways about fifteen feet in width, each protected by a mound of earth on the inside. From thence four parallel walls of earth proceeded to the basin of the harbour, others extending several miles into the country, and others on the east joined to a square fort containing twenty acres, not four miles distant. From this latter fort parallel walls extended to the harbour, and others to another circular fort one mile and a half ...

— The Western World - Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North - and South America • W.H.G. Kingston

... unto the Lord in their trouble, He delivers them out of all their distress. For He makes the storm to cease, so that the waves are still; then are they glad because they are at rest, and so God brings them to the harbour where they ...

— True Words for Brave Men • Charles Kingsley

... able to learn," replied Tom, "it was originally the Mouth of Boulogne Harbour, or Boulogne Mouth,—and from thence corrupted to the Bull and Mouth. There are, however, many curious signs, to trace the original derivation of which, has afforded me many amusing moments during my perambulation through the ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... no space for a description of this eternal proboscis. Suffice it that its existence is a standing menace to society, a threat to civilization, and a danger to commerce. The woman who will harbour and cherish such an organ is no better than a pirate. We do not know who she is, and we have no desire to know. We only know that all the angels could not pull us past her house with a chain cable, without giving us one look at that astounding feature. It ...

— The Fiend's Delight • Dod Grile

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