Harbourage

Word HARBOURAGE
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Definitions and meanings of "Harbourage"

What do we mean by harbourage?

A place for refuge for a vessel.

A condition on land favorable to infestation by animals considered pests.

A place of shelter or entertainment.

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The word "harbourage" in example sentences

“Fail to take all practicable measures to eradicate and prevent the harbourage of pests on the food premises” — Only $660 fine?!?!? ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Fail to take all practicable measures to eradicate and prevent the harbourage of pests on the food premises” — Only $660 fine? ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Brahmajnana, Yoga and Dharma are the three essentialities of Hinduism; wherever it travels and find harbourage and resting place, these three must spread. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)

Julian that men clepe to for good harbourage, for our Lord harboured with him in his house. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Was the moral sentiment of the country population so perverted, so obliterated, that robbers and murderers could find safe harbourage, trustworthy friends, and secret intelligence? ❋ Unknown (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?” ❋ Unknown (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? ❋ Unknown (2004)

As the steamer from the South enters the bay, the traveller sees ahead the fringe of houses on the low lands fronting the inlet where shipping finds safe and convenient harbourage. ❋ Unknown (2003)

This was a shameful custom and usage, a knight for his harbour-asking to have such harbourage. ❋ Unknown (2003)

So then they sailed till by fortune they came nigh a castle that hight Pluere, and thereby arrived for to repose them, weening to them to have had good harbourage. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I felt, gradually, a sense of peace descending on me, a feeling that this was a safe little harbourage that I should be sorry to leave. ❋ Stewart, Mary, 1916- (1967)

I should like to see her, resembling one of the more obese female deities, seated in the prow of the punt, hauling herself back to harbourage. ❋ Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 (1955)

So great in draught and so many were his ships that they could scarcely find harbourage, though both the Harlond and the Forlond also were filled; and from them descended an army of power, with munition and provision for a war of great kings. ❋ Tolkien, J. R. R. (1954)

Well, in good faith, sir, 'tis my earnest hope that some are guests in my heart, and I would fain believe that I give harbourage to all the noble train. ❋ Tom Bevan (N/A)

And all the while the plotters had secret harbourage at Dean Tower, coming and going by stealth and in the darkness, avoiding all men, playing no bogy tricks, but maturing their plans. ❋ Tom Bevan (N/A)

The harbourage is good, but rather difficult to make in rough weather; south-westerly winds drive the seas fiercely against its mouth. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

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