Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
harbour master
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Finnan knew the harbour master well, and found a berth for the flatboat.
▪ The harbour master at Million Cove said we must pay the £2 each to the National Trust.
▪ The Chichester harbour master was fed up with waving.
▪ Yanto's father had got hell from the harbour master and Yanto had got hell from his old man.
Usage examples of "harbour master".
It's the Grey Kestrel, so we can ask the harbour master where it was going.
You have to ask permission from King's Harbour Master, but it is a formality.
Its the Grey Kestrel, so we can ask the harbour master where it was going.
They learned from the harbour master in Trapani that the crusaders were not in Jerusalem at all, but on their way to Antioch, an inland city some distance to the north of the Holy Land.
The whaler, when it took Tippoo ashore, was rowed by men that Mungo selected personally, and they were instructed to inform the Harbour Master that there was smallpox aboard, and to request that no other vessel be allowed near Huron.