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harbourmaster

harbourmaster 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 harbourmaster

pluralharbourmasters

Questions about harbourmaster

What is harbourmaster the alternative spelling of?
Harbourmaster is the alternative spelling of harbormaster.

Words near harbourmaster in the dictionary

  1. harbourful
  2. harbourfuls
  3. harbouring
  4. harbourless
  5. harbourlessness
  6. harbourmaster
  7. harbourmasters
  8. harbourmistress
  9. harbourmistresses
  10. Harbourne
  11. harbours

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Adapted from Wiktionary: harbourmaster (page history and authors); harbormaster (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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