Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place of lodging, originally for an army; a camp; in a more general use, a lodging; a shelter; an inn.
- noun Shelter; refuge; asylum.
- noun In astrology, the house or mansion of a heavenly body.
- To provide a lodging-place for; lodge.
- To give shelter to; entertain; protect.
- To find the harbor or refuge of; trace home, as a deer to its covert.
- To have a lodging; lodge; dwell.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A shelter.
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First, there was someone in Kuwait who went to Yahoo! and typed in "what was the original function for market harborough".
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But notwithstanding, God be praysed, the winde enlarged vpon vs, that we had not occasion to goe into the harborough: and then the Pinnesse bare her Myssen mast ouer boord with flagge and all, and lost the flagge: with the mast there fell two men ouer boord, but God be praised, they were saued: the flagge was a token, whereby we might, understand whether there were a good harbour there or not.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Friday (10) we turned to the windward of the ebbe, but to no purpose: and as we rode at an anker, we saw the similitude of a storme rising at Northnorthwest, and could not tell where to get rode nor succor for that winde, and harborough we knew none: and that land which we rode vnder with that winde was a lee shore.
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If so be that with his grace and fauour a furthur nauigation may be made, I would counsell them certainly not first to seeke out the promontorie Tabin, but to search this baie and riuers aforesayd, and in them to picke and chuse out some conuenient port and harborough for the English merchants, from whence afterward with more opportunitie and lesse perill, the promontorie Tabin and all the coast of Cathaio may bee discouered.
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Tuesday (4) we turned for the harborough where Loshaks barke lay, whereas before we road vnder an Island.
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Gentleman, shalbe captaine thereof: and that all the other 3. ships shall ensue and folow her in all courses, and that no course or waying (in harborough especially) shall be made without aduice, consent and agreement of the sayd Captaine, the Master, his mate, and two other officers of the said ship, or of three of them at the least.
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Saturday (11) we went Eastsoutheast and followed Gabriel, and he brought vs into an harborough called Morgiouets, which is 30 leagues from Caninoz, and we had vpon the barre going in two fadome and a fourth part: and after we were past in ouer the barre, it waxed deeper, for we had 5 fadoms, 4 and a half, and 3 fadom
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I caused the Pinnesse to beare in with the shore, to see whether she might find an harborough for the ships or not, and that she found and saw two roaders ride in the sound: and also they sawe houses.
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Which if it be so, the best counsel I could giue for their best safetie, were to seeke some harborough in that baie, and those riuers whereof I haue spoken, and by some Ambassador to make friendship and acquaintance with the great Can, in name of the Queenes maiestie, which I beleeue will be gratefull to the mightiest
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