place+of+shelter

  • 91har´bor|er — har|bor «HAHR buhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. an area of deep water protected from wind and currents, forming a place of shelter for ships. A harbor may have loading and unloading facilities for passengers and cargo. »Great ocean liners dock in the… …

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  • 92har|bor — «HAHR buhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. an area of deep water protected from wind and currents, forming a place of shelter for ships. A harbor may have loading and unloading facilities for passengers and cargo. »Great ocean liners dock in the harbor of… …

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  • 93house — n., adj. /hows/; v. /howz/, n., pl. houses /how ziz/, v., housed, housing, adj. n. 1. a building in which people live; residence for human beings. 2. a household. 3. (often cap.) a family, including ancestors and descendants: the great houses of… …

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  • 94harbor — har•bor [[t]ˈhɑr bər[/t]] n. 1) a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents 2) such a body of water having… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 95Coldharbour —    1) A large messuage in the parishes of All Hallows the Great and All Hallows the Less in Dowgate Ward, which stood on the site now occupied by the City of London Brewery (q.v.).    The church of All Hallows the Less stood over an arched gate,… …

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  • 96San Francisco SPCA — The San Francisco SPCA is an animal shelter and a spay/neuter clinic located at 2500 16th Street in San Francisco. Its historic collaboration with the City of San Francisco and the San Francisco Animal Care and Control Department made San… …

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  • 97harbor — harborer, n. harborless, adj. harborous, adj. /hahr beuhr/, n. 1. a part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection …

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  • 98harbour — [OE] Etymologically, a harbour is a ‘shelter for a crowd of people’. English acquired it in the late Anglo Saxon period as herebeorg, perhaps borrowed from Old Norse herbergi, but it began life as a compound of prehistoric Germanic *kharjaz,… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 99cover — verb 1》 put something on top of or in front of (something) in order to protect or conceal it.     ↘envelop in a layer of something. 2》 extend over (an area). 3》 deal with (a subject).     ↘(of a rule or law) apply to. 4》 travel (a specified… …

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  • 100harbour — [OE] Etymologically, a harbour is a ‘shelter for a crowd of people’. English acquired it in the late Anglo Saxon period as herebeorg, perhaps borrowed from Old Norse herbergi, but it began life as a compound of prehistoric Germanic *kharjaz,… …

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