harbourage

harbourage

(ˈhɑːbərɪdʒ) or

harborage

n
(Nautical Terms) shelter or refuge, as for a ship, or a place providing shelter
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Noun1.harbourage - (nautical) a place of refuge (as for a ship)
ship - a vessel that carries passengers or freight
refuge, safety - a safe place; "He ran to safety"
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"It is Christmas Eve," says he, "I mark the date; here I sit alone on a rude couch of rushes, sheltered by the thatch of a herdsman's hut; I, whose inheritance was a kingdom, owe my night's harbourage to a poor serf; my throne is usurped, my crown presses the brow of an invader; I have no friends; my troops wander broken in the hills of Wales; reckless robbers spoil my country; my subjects lie prostrate, their breasts crushed by the heel of the brutal Dane.
But the singular appearance of his companion and his attendants, arrested their attention and excited their wonder, and they could scarcely attend to the Prior of Jorvaulx' question, when he demanded if they knew of any place of harbourage in the vicinity; so much were they surprised at the half monastic, half military appearance of the swarthy stranger, and at the uncouth dress and arms of his Eastern attendants.
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.
There were also no hygienic hand drying facilities, and old unused kitchen equipment left in the yard could become 'harbourage points for pests,' according to inspectors.
monocytogenes can persist in harbourage sites (i.e.
David Cross, head of the technical training academy at Rentokil Pest Control said: "Pests will only infest areas where there is a good source of food and safe harbourage. Large collections of rubbish left unattended could be an attractive home for mice, rats, flies, and other pests.
Rats and mice are the most significant rodent pests entering warehouses for food and harbourage, adding to the dismay of business owners in Saudi Arabia.
After feeding they return to a harbourage and do not remain on the host.
[euro]ey are looking for food and harbourage so they are attracted to premises that are not clean.
The process usually begins with identification of potential pest that may infiltrate the facility to further understand pest's behaviour, elimination of breeding and harbourage areas both inside and outside the premises, exclusion from potential entry points and treatment.
The high bioaccumulation factor for chromium and zinc suggests that the concentration of these metal ions n as it sometimes serves as a harbourage or the fish species have poor mechanisms for digesting and eliminating these heavy metals.
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