harborage

IPA: hˈɑrbɝɪdʒ

(US, nautical) A place for refuge for a vessel.
(US, law) A condition on land favorable to infestation by animals considered pests.
A place of shelter or entertainment.

Examples of "harborage" in Sentences

Carol would have offered it harborage long before.
I had seen the invasion fleet entering upon its peaceful harborage at Brundisium.
In such close harborage it would be possible to walk across the sea yard, moving from deck to deck.
The rocks among which they crouched were a rough harborage from which they could see the shore as a dark blot.
After the bed bugs stopped moving within the paper, called a harborage, the scientists applied the desiccant dust followed by the alarm pheromone.
The brief added that, because their exclusion from the U.S. "is constitutionally valid, their resulting harborage at Guantánamo Bay is constitutional as well."
It was accessible along a clear channel through the bordering coral reefs, and it offered calm harborage in the lee of the arm—the lee being alternately one side or the other, depending on which way the monsoon winds were blowing.
If the comet fragments strike in the predicted locations, and the expected changes in local geography and sea level take place, Site 149 is going to be within a few kilometers of the new shoreline, right on top of what ought to be the best harborage for three thousand kilometers.
Was there coal, was there petroleum or gold, was there rich soil or harborage, or the site for a fine city, these obsessed and witless Governments cried out for scramblers, and a stream of shabby, tricky, and violent adventurers set out to found a new section of the landed aristocracy of the world.