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  • noun A person who harbours another

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Examples

  • Each stag hunt has a "harbourer," a specialist whose job is to watch the herds and select a specific quarry, chosen for its lack of Darwinian promise.

    Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005

  • Each stag hunt has a "harbourer," a specialist whose job is to watch the herds and select a specific quarry, chosen for its lack of Darwinian promise.

    Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005

  • For a proper hunt, or "meet," in which Rovers and BMWs do not initiate the pursuit, the harbourer spends the previous day and night making sure of the stag's location.

    Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005

  • For a proper hunt, or "meet," in which Rovers and BMWs do not initiate the pursuit, the harbourer spends the previous day and night making sure of the stag's location.

    Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005

  • If she be a woman, and love me, I shall surely catch her once tripping: for love was ever a traitor to its harbourer: and love within, and I without, she will be more than woman, as the poet says, or I less than man, if I succeed not.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • He has accused the country of being part of the axis of evil, a harbourer of al-Qaida terrorists and a nuclear menace threatening global stability.

    Archive 2004-10-01 Mumon 2004

  • These accused him at court of being a comforter and harbourer of thieves, the result being that he was deprived not only of the commission of the peace, but of the captaincy of

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • He has accused the country of being part of the axis of evil, a harbourer of al-Qaida terrorists and a nuclear menace threatening global stability.

    The "terrorisists" really do want Bush... Mumon 2004

  • Situated on the very confines of the state, he led an independent life; a harbourer of outlaws, an outlaw at one time himself, and then safely returnedÂ…

    Chapter XIX 1909

  • And art thou now a harbourer of all kinds of vices? nay, dost thou play the capital Vice thyself?

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

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