Word Finder - harbour

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Any place of shelter.

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The neighborhood is a well-known harbor for petty thieves.

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A sheltered expanse of water, adjacent to land, in which ships may anchor or dock, especially for loading and unloading.

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(glassworking) A mixing box for materials.

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A house of the zodiac, or the mansion of a heavenly body.

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Shelter, refuge.

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To provide a harbor or safe place for.

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The docks, which once harbored tall ships, now harbor only petty thieves.

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To take refuge or shelter in a protected expanse of water.

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The fleet harbored in the south.

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To drive (a hunted stag) to covert.

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To hold or persistently entertain in one's thoughts or mind.

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She harbors a conviction that her husband has a secret, criminal past.

The harbour was our joy, our paradise.

The harbour was named by Nero, Portus Augusti.

The harbour is spacious, sheltered, and deep even at low water.

The harbour is protected by moles.

The harbour is enclosed by two stone piers, and there is good anchorage in the bay.

The harbour is connected by canals with the river Aa and the navigable waterways of the department.

The harbour is small and has little trade.

The anchorage is safe, and the bay full of fish; the harbour has a certain amount of trade.

There were special reasons why Sicily should harbour these feelings against the Bourbons.

The fishery is confined to Fisherrow, where there is a good harbour.

At the mouth of the canal is a small harbour.

It contains the "Descrypcion of the towre of Virtue and Honour," an elegy on Sir Edward Howard, lord high admiral of England, who perished in the attack on the French fleet in the harbour of Brest in 1513.

Two hundred and fifty ships, said Dion (in a lost passage quoted by Jordanes), could ride at anchor in its harbour.

Even at that period, however, the silt brought down by the rivers rendered access to the harbour difficult, and the historian Philistus excavated a canal to give free access to the sea.

He was captured with the Davis party on the 10th of May 1865, and was imprisoned in Fort Warren, Boston Harbour, until the following October.

The expedition which settled Jamestown rounded this peninsula (April 26, 1607), opened its sealed instructions here, and named the peninsula Poynt Comfort, in recognition of the sheltered harbour.

In the following May, after the fall of the Confederacy, he was arrested at his home and taken to Fort Warren, in Boston harbour, where he was confined until the 12th of October.

The harbour, owing to its fine anchorage, was much in use, but the place was never a separate town, but always dependent on Formiae.

The town lay on the south side of the outer harbour, near the village of Miseno, where remains of a theatre and baths and the inscriptions relating to the town have been found.

It has an increasing trade in iron, timber, coal and agricultural products, a trade which is fostered by a harbour opened in 1897; and also large factories for making aniline dyes and soda.

Gorinchem possesses a good harbour, and besides working in gold and silver, carries on a considerable trade in grain, hemp, cheese, potatoes, cattle and fish, the salmon fishery being noted.

The harbour, the largest in Spain after that of Vigo, and the finest on the east coast, is a spacious bay, deep, except near its centre, where there is a ledge of rock barely 5 ft.

It is dominated, on the seaward side, by four hills, and approached by a narrow entrance, with forts on either hand; a breakwater affords shelter on the east, and on the west is the Arsenal Basin, often regarded as the original harbour of the Carthaginians and Romans.

The opening of the railway enabled it to compete successfully with Alicante, and revived the mining and metallurgical industries, while considerable sums were expended on bringing the coast and land defences up to date, and adding new quays, docks and other harbour works.

It was conveniently situated opposite to the Carthaginian territory in Africa, and was early noted for its harbour.

Westward two short but important roads led on each side of the Tiber to the great harbour at its mouth; while the coast of Latium was supplied with a coast road by Septimius Severus.

There are besides many other safe anchorages about the coast, notably Shoal Bay and Kotara Anchorage in the South Andaman; Cadell Bay and the Turtle Islands in the North Andaman; and Outram Harbour and Kwangtung Strait in the archipelago.

The harbour of Port Blair is well supplied with buoys and harbour lights, and is crossed by ferries at fixed intervals, while there are several launches for hauling local traffic. On Ross Island there is a lighthouse visible for 19 m.

In 1788-1789 the government of Bengal sought to establish in the Andamans a penal colony, associated with a harbour of refuge.

Delfzyl, which was formerly an important fortress for the protection of the ancient sluices on the little river Delf (hence its name), has greatly benefited by the construction of the Ems (Eems) shipcanal connecting it with Groningen, and has a good harbour with a considerable import trade in wood.

The Hauraki Gulf, a great square inlet opening northward, is studded with islands of considerable elevation; Rangitoto, which protects the harbour, is a volcanic cone reaching nearly l000 ft.

Auckland harbour, one of the best in New Zealand, is approachable by the largest vessels at the lowest tide.

The parks are the Domain, with a botanical garden, the Albert Park near the harbour, with a bronze statue of Queen Victoria, the extensive grounds at One Tree.

Onehunga is a small port on Manukau harbour, served by rail.

The existence of a good natural harbour is often sufficient to give origin to a town and to fix one end of a line of land communication.

It has a good harbour and a considerable lake commerce.

There are many pleasant drives along the shore of the bay or the banks of rivers, and some of these lead to popular resorts, such as Riverton Park, on the Presumpscot; Cape Cottage Park, at the mouth of the harbour; and Falmouth Foreside, bordering the inner bay.

The harbour has an artificial breakwater and extensive modern fortifications (Fort Preble, on the Cape Shore; Fort Levett, on Cushing's Island; Fort Williams, at Portland Head; and Fort McKinley, on Great Diamond Island) among the best equipped in the United States.

Dives is celebrated as the harbour whence William the Conqueror sailed to England in 1066.

A harbour was first granted to Newhaven in 1713, and during the early part of the 18th century it possessed a large shipping trade.

The tidal harbour, which is owned by a company, is enclosed by two piers and a breakwater, the area being about 30 acres, and the quayage 1400 yds.

Agrippa made the fine natural harbour into the main naval station of the Mediterranean fleet, and founded a colony there probably in 31 B.C. The emperor Tiberius died in his villa here.

The harbour consisted of the outer basin, or Porto di Miseno, protected by moles, of which remains still exist, and the present Mare Morto, separated from it by a comparatively modern embankment.

It possessed a good harbour; and the neighbourhood was famous for its wine, so that, having fallen into the hands of the Persians during the Ionian revolt, it was assigned by Artaxerxes I.

The town owed its origin and growth to its position on the shores of the Bristol Channel, and its good harbour developed an oversea trade with Bristol, South Wales and the Irish ports.

The harbour is good and secure, and is much frequented by vessels delayed in the Elbe by unfavourbale weather.

A new harbour was made in 1891-1896, having a depth of 264 ft., with a fore port l000 ft.

There is a fishing fleet, for which a new harbour was opened in 1892.

The crater is densely overgrown with oaks and beeches which harbour wild boars and wolves.

The coast, however, is unprovided with a single good harbour.