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unharbor

unharbor is the alternative spelling of unharbour.

Meaning of unharbour

Verb

unharbour (third-person singular simple present unharbours, present participle unharbouring, simple past and past participle unharboured)

  1. (transitive) To drive (someone, or something such as hunting game) from harbour or shelter.
    • [I]f the Harte ſhould rowze for feare a farre of [off], his hound (hunting vpon the winde) might carie him amiſſe, ſo that he ſhould not finde the layre. Whereby (⁊ by yͤ foyles about it) he might haue certain iudgement: and if he rowze or vnharbor the Deare ⁊ find the layre, let him not blow ouer...1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “How a Huntsman should Rowze an Hart, and Cast off His Hounds to Him”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot...

Forms of unharbor

third-person singular presentunharbors
present participleunharboring
past participleunharbored
pastunharbored

Origin of unharbor

From un- + harbor.

Questions about unharbor

What is unharbor the alternative spelling of?
Unharbor is the alternative spelling of unharbour.

Words near unharbor in the dictionary

  1. unhaptenized
  2. unharangued
  3. unharassable
  4. unharassed
  5. unharassing
  6. unharbor
  7. unharbored
  8. unharbour
  9. unharboured
  10. unharbouring
  11. unharbours

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