harbor : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the seaport at Boston
  

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• a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward. Knight.

Webster 1913

• (Naut.), fees paid for the use of a harbor.

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Har"bor mas`ter

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1. An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.

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• noun patrol of officers who police a harbor area
  

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• noun the common porpoise of the northern Atlantic and Pacific
  Phocoena phocoena; herring hog.
  

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• noun small spotted seal of coastal waters of the northern hemisphere
  Phoca vitulina; common seal.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the common seal.
• (Zoöl.), the common seal (Phoca vitulina). It inhabits both the North Atlantic and the North Pacific Ocean, and often ascends rivers; called also marbled seal, native seal, river seal, bay seal, land seal, sea calf, sea cat, sea dog, dotard, ranger, selchie, tangfish.

Webster 1913

• a watch set when a vessel is in port; an anchor watch.

Webster 1913

• noun a harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu; location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on 7 Dec 1941
  

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• noun the target company defends itself by acquiring a company so onerously regulated that it makes the target less attractive
  
  • the acquisition gave the company a safe harbor

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• noun a steel arch bridge in Sydney, Australia
  

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