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A place of refuge (as for a ship)
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harborage
Word definitions for harborage in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship) [syn: harbourage ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harborage \Har"bor*age\ (-[asl]j), n. Shelter; entertainment.[R.] Where can I get me harborage for the night? --Tennyson.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context US nautical English) A place for refuge for a vessel. n. (context US nautical English) A place for refuge for a vessel.
Usage examples of harborage.
At Harborage the two asked after the Rengarth Barbarians, but received only blank looks.
Once the home of a wealthy owner of sailing ships, it now sheltered, as a safe harborage, the troubled souls who roamed its corridors and muttered along its hedgerows.
Just after daybreak on the seventh day, four ships arrived from the winter harborage in the south Caledon estuary where Cynan kept them.
We spent the better part of a day searching along the coast for harborage, and then, as the day sped from us, we happened upon a bay guarded by two rock stack promontories that formed a narrow entrance.
Captains may buy and sell shipsthey own all of thembut everyone pays rent for their dwellings and storehouses to the Sea Lord, who also receives a small percentage of profitable voyages, exacts fees for the use of the shipyard and for harborage, and collects buyers' taxes on exports from the merchants who come to trade with us.