harbour master

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