Definitions

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  • noun UK, nautical A place for refuge for a vessel.

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  • noun (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship)

Etymologies

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harbour +‎ -age

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Examples

  • “Fail to take all practicable measures to eradicate and prevent the harbourage of pests on the food premises” — Only $660 fine?!?!?

    Name And Shame Food List Highlights Unhygenic Restaurants | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • The square-rigged cargo ships, with their central wells ready for loading, were brought inshore, to be easily beached when the time came, and only the small, fast dragon-boats remained within the enclosed harbourage.

    His Disposition 2010

  • “Fail to take all practicable measures to eradicate and prevent the harbourage of pests on the food premises” — Only $660 fine?

    Name And Shame Food List Highlights Unhygenic Restaurants | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • In the first place, it will hardly be denied that we possess the finest and safest harbourage for shipping, where vessels of all sorts can come to moorings and be laid up in absolute security17 as far as stress of weather is concerned.

    Ways and Means 2007

  • Brahmajnana, Yoga and Dharma are the three essentialities of Hinduism; wherever it travels and find harbourage and resting place, these three must spread.

    Yoga by Sri Aurobindo Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Julian that men clepe to for good harbourage, for our Lord harboured with him in his house.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Accordingly, the knight took no time to consider minutely the particulars which we have detailed, but thanking Saint Julian (the patron of travellers) who had sent him good harbourage, he leaped from his horse and assailed the door of the hermitage with the butt of his lance, in order to arouse attention and gain admittance.

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • Roberts, to whom he mentioned this circumstance, fully agreed with him as to its being a prognostication of danger, and when the arrangements were made for the night, the party camped in as open a place as they could select, where no neighbouring thicket might afford harbourage for a lurking foe.

    Ralph Rashleigh 2004

  • (Henry was silent.) “Where did you part from him?” continued Bothwell; “was it in the highway, or did you give him harbourage in this very house?”

    Old Mortality 2004

  • In the sunshine of the morning, beneath the wide, blue heavens, with a fresh wind astir, what fears, except the most desperate, can find a harbourage?

    Sister Carrie 2004

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