harbour - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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harbour (plural harbours)
- (British spelling) Standard spelling of harbor.
1961 August, “New traffic flows in South Wales”, in Trains Illustrated, page 492:
In West Wales it has never been possible until recently to exploit the magnificent natural harbour of Milford Haven, for there was no industrial hinterland.
harbour (third-person singular simple present harbours, present participle harbouring, simple past and past participle harboured)
- (British spelling) Standard spelling of harbor.
The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves.
a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert:
Nor let your gentle Breast harbor one Thought Of Outrage from the Kin.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 188, about Flamborough:
Its streets fan out towards the clifftops, and its sheltered North Landing harbours open-decked fishing boats, called 'cobles'.
2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport[1]:
If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break
- “harbour”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.