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harbour
, (U.S.) harbor
n

1 a sheltered port

2 a place of refuge or safety
vb

3 tr to give shelter to
to harbour a criminal

4 tr to maintain secretly
to harbour a grudge

5    to shelter (a vessel) in a harbour or (of a vessel) to seek shelter
     (Old English herebeorg, from here troop, army + beorg shelter; related to Old High German heriberga hostelry, Old Norse herbergi)
♦   harbourer     (U.S.)
♦   harborer      n
♦   harbourless     (U.S.)
♦   harborless      adj

Pearl Harbor
n an almost landlocked inlet of the Pacific on the S coast of the island of Oahu, Hawaii: site of a U.S. naval base attacked by the Japanese in 1941, resulting in the U.S. entry into World War II

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