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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."

Harbor v. i. To lodge, or abide for a time; to take shelter, as in a harbor. "For this night let's harbor here in York."

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Etymology of 'Harbor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Harbor" Quotes from Famous Books

... Court Street, State Street and Commerce Street, (for the proprietors of Long Wharf refused to allow them to march upon their premises, through a public highway in all ordinary cases,) to the T Wharf, where the prisoner was taken on board a steam tow-boat, and conveyed down the harbor to the United States Revenue Cutter Morris; in which he was transported ...

— The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims - Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18 • American Anti-Slavery Society

... not until just before we reached England that I began to feel myself again. I stood on deck, thrilled with the tall ships and the steamers, the fishing smacks and the smaller craft in Southampton harbor. ...

— The Log-Cabin Lady, An Anonymous Autobiography • Unknown

... at her anchor, Eager now to kiss the spray, While the little waves are callin' Drowsy sailor come away, There's a harbor for the happy, And its sheen is just in sight, But I won't set sail to get there, Till the wind ...

— The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar • Paul Laurence Dunbar

... said of him, "Frank can't even enjoy a view from a mountain-peak without wanting to call some one up to share it with him." He writes of his feeling about solitary nature to his friend George Dorr, in 1917, in connection with improvements for the new National Park, near Bar Harbor, "A wilderness, no matter how impressive or beautiful does not satisfy this soul of mine (if I have that kind of a thing). It is a challenge to man. It says, 'Master me! Put me to use! Make me more than I am!'" About his "need ...

— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane

... the remains are the great temple site on Senator Cooke's ranch, toward the east end of the island, and the "paved trail" 10 miles down the coast from Kaunakakai, the principal village and harbor. The former is rectangular in outline, built on irregular ground, of stones large and small, to form a level platform on which a thousand persons could assemble without being hampered for lack of room. The outer faces of the walls vary from ...

— Archeological Investigations - Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 • Gerard Fowke

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