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Harbour vs Primage - What's the difference?

harbour | primage |

As nouns the difference between harbour and primage

is that harbour is shelter, refuge while primage is a payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.

As a verb harbour

is to provide shelter or refuge for.

harbour

English

Alternative forms

* herberwe (obsolete) * herborough (obsolete) * harbor (now US)

Noun

(wikipedia harbour)
  • (en noun) (British, Canada)
  • (obsolete, uncountable) Shelter, refuge.
  • A place of shelter or refuge.
    • The neighbourhood is a well-known harbour for petty thieves.
  • (obsolete) A house of the zodiac.
  • * Late 14th century: To ech of hem his tyme and his seson, / As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or heighe — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin’s Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  • A sheltered area for ships; a piece of water adjacent to land in which ships may stop to load and unload.
    • The city has an excellent natural harbour .
  • (astrology) The mansion of a heavenly body.
  • A mixing box for materials in glass-working.

    • Derived terms

    * harbourage * harbourmaster * unharboured

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide shelter or refuge for.
    • The docks, which once harboured''' tall ships, now '''harbour only petty thieves.
  • * Bishop Burnet
    • The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
  • * Rowe
    • Let not your gentle breast harbour one thought of outrage.
  • To accept, as with a belief.
    • That scientist harbours the belief that God created humans.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=If Moldova harboured even the slightest hopes of pulling off a comeback that would have bordered on miraculous given their lack of quality, they were snuffed out 13 minutes before the break when Oxlade-Chamberlain picked his way through midfield before releasing Defoe for a finish that should have been dealt with more convincingly by Namasco at his near post.}}

    See also

    * dock * haven

    primage

    English

    Etymology 1

    From primagium. (The French word post-dates the English.)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) A payment made for loading or unloading a ship, or for care of goods during transit by ship.
  • * 1818 , , The Political State of the British Empire , Volume 3, page 197,
    • By the bill of lading the ma?ter undertakes to deliver the goods on payment of freight with primage and average accu?tomed.
  • (archaic, UK) An import duty levied by a guild of harbour pilots (especially at Kingston-upon-Hull and Newcastle-upon-Tyne) .
  • (Australia, New Zealand) An additional import duty levied by customs.
  • * 1932 , E. T. McPhee (Commonwealth Statistician), Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia: No. 25 - 1932 ,
    • The rate of primage duty was subsequently increased to 4 per cent. as from the 6th November, 1930.

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (engineering, rare) Droplets of water suspended in steam (especially in the cylinder of a steam engine).
  • * 1883 , Emory Edwards, Modern American Locomotive Engines: Their Design, Construction and Management , page 75,
    • Of these temperatures, only one, the second, indicates primage ; all others exhibit a slight superheat.

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