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harbor master

harbor master is the alternative spelling of harbormaster.

Meaning of harbormaster

Noun

harbormaster (plural harbormasters)

  1. (US) An official responsible for the enforcement of regulations in a port.
    • The harbormaster met them with a group of men armed with swords and crossbows. Cedhunt identified them as a mercantile mission from Albion, and Alexsay, the harbormaster, escorted them to Nikhol’s zamok, a sprawling two-storied building much larger than any squarr’s bighouse Barigrange had seen...1988 February, Charles Fontenay, “Fredeya”, in Robert Adams, Martin H[arry] Greenberg, Patricia Crippen Adams, editors, Barbarians II (Demons and Sorcerers), New York, N.Y.: Signet, →ISBN, page 185

Forms of harbor master

pluralharbor masters

Questions about harbor master

What is harbor master the alternative spelling of?
Harbor master is the alternative spelling of harbormaster.

Words near harbor master in the dictionary

  1. Harbolds
  2. harbor
  3. harbor gasket
  4. harbor gaskets
  5. Harbor Link
  6. harbor master
  7. harbor masters
  8. harbor of refuge
  9. harbor seal
  10. harbor seals
  11. harborage

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