harbour , (U.S.) harbor
n
2 a place of refuge or safety
vb
3 tr to give shelter to
to harbour a criminal
4 tr to maintain secretly
to harbour a grudge
5 to shelter (a vessel) in a harbour or (of a vessel) to seek shelter (Old English herebeorg, from here troop, army + beorg shelter; related to Old High German heriberga hostelry, Old Norse herbergi) ♦
harbourer (U.S.) ♦
harborer n ♦
harbourless (U.S.) ♦
harborless adj
harbour master
n an official in charge of a harbour
harbour seal
n a common earless seal, Phoca vitulina, that is greyish-black with paler markings: occurs off the coasts of North America, N Europe, and NE Asia
Mulberry Harbour
n either of two prefabricated floating harbours towed across the English Channel to the French coast for the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944
(from the code name Operation Mulberry)