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harbourer, -orer|ˈhɑːbərə(r)|
[f. harbour v. + -er1. This took up sense 1 of herberger, harbinger, after that word came to be used chiefly in senses 2, 3.]
1. One who harbours, shelters, or entertains; an entertainer, a host. Also fig. Now more usually dyslogistic.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke viii. (R.) Of an harbourer of deuils, was he sodainly made a disciple, and scholar of Jesus. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 45 Eyther..harberours of Antes..or else breeders of..weedes. 1624T. Scott 2nd Pt. Vox Populi 28 Abettors, maintainors, concealors of their plots or haberours of their persons. 1652J. Audley Eng. Commw. 29 It became the Commons to be harborers of the people. 1710Strype Life Abp. Grindal an. 1582 (R.) A great nurse of pious men, and harbourer of exiles for religion. 1847De Quincey Sp. Mil. Nun Wks. III. 19 Not to the Don as harbourer of his daughter. 1892Daily News 25 Jan. 5/3 Unpolished granite..is a sad harbourer of soot and dust.
2. Stag-hunting. One whose office it is to trace a deer to its covert.
1651Davenant Gondibert ii. xxix, Old Forrest Spys, the Harborers With hast approach. 1674N. Cox Gentl. Recreat. (1677) 72 The Harbourer having taught his Hound to draw mute always round the outside of the Covert. 1884Jefferies Red Deer vi. 104 The work of the ‘harbourer’ is to find where a runnable stag is in ‘harbour’ on the morning of the meet.
Hence ˈharbouress, -oresse, a hostess.
1624Heywood Gunaik. ix. 428 Mary..was a devout harboresse,..that gladly entertained the disciples of Christ. |