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Harboured vs Arboured - What's the difference?

harboured | arboured |

As a verb harboured

is (harbour).

As an adjective arboured is

containing or situated close to trees.

harboured

English

Verb

(head)
  • (harbour)

    • 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

    arboured

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Containing or situated close to trees.
  • * 1905 , C. N. Williamson & A. M. Williamson, My Friend the Chaffeur , A. L. Burt Company (1905), Chapter XVIII:
    • but later she apologized to the quaint court-yard for her misunderstanding, and was more than tolerant of her vast bedroom draped with yellow satin, and opening on an arboured terrace worthy even of a Countess Dalmar.
  • *
    • Its tower-like bulk of a bole mounted into the arboured gloom
  • * 2010 , Martin Dunford, The Rough Guide to Italy , Rough Guides (2011), ISBN 9781405389228, unnumbered page:
    • Take the little walkway back from the street and discover an arboured garden patio setting decorated with appealingly kitsch painted statues and coloured fairy lights.
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