HARBOURAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does harbourage mean? 

• HARBOURAGE (noun)
  The noun HARBOURAGE has 1 sense:

1. (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship)

  Familiarity information: HARBOURAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARBOURAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

harborage; harbourage

Hypernyms ("harbourage" is a kind of...):

refuge; safety (a safe place)

Domain category:

ship (a vessel that carries passengers or freight)

Derivation:

harbour (secretly shelter (as of fugitives or criminals))

 Context examples 

On a dark, misty, raw morning in January, I had left a hostile roof with a desperate and embittered heart—a sense of outlawry and almost of reprobation—to seek the chilly harbourage of Lowood: that bourne so far away and unexplored.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)