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- noun Plural form of
harbour . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
harbour .
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Examples
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To see the coaling of the steamers in Japanese harbours, which is done by baskets handed from one to another, makes an impression on the traveller.
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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A diagram showing the parts of a tugboat, a boat used to maneuver large ships in harbours, over the open sea, or through rivers and canals.
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Meanwhile, during the Winter and Spring months, over 500,000 tons of material were gathered together in harbours on both East and West Coasts.
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English goods, lying in English harbours, and just ready to sail for
Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Daniel Jackson
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Seaplane pilots were bombing specialists, including among their targets army headquarters, ammunition dumps, railway stations, submarines and their bases, docks, shipping in German harbours, and the German Fleet at Wilhelmshaven.
A History of Aeronautics Evelyn Charles Vivian 1914
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Steamers: coaling of, in Japanese harbours; unpleasant trip on Barito River; voyage on a rattan transport; the _De Weert_; the _Grotius_; the _Otto_; the _Selatan_; the _Sophia_
Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 Carl Lumholtz 1886
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The excuse the Frenchmen gave for treating them thus barbarously was that the French taken by English cruisers were shut up on board hulks in English harbours without good food or any exercise.
James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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He was also to investigate the possibilities of sabotaging German ships in Dutch harbours.
between silk and cyanide Marks, Leo 1998
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"The harbours are our fathers 'harbours, and were freed to us forty years ago."
The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892
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After the business at Gibraltar, Philip's subjects were not safe in English harbours.
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 James Anthony Froude 1856
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