harborless
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a word derived from
harbor.
harbornouna part of a body of water along the shore deep enough for anchoring a ship and so situated with respect to coastal features, whether natural or artificial, as to provide protection from winds, waves, and currents.
Example Sentences
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Even as tragedy struck in the Trengganu estuary, another refugee drama, that of the harborless freighter Hai Hong, was coming to a gradual, troubled end.
From Time Magazine Archive
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An atom-blasted harbor, say on the almost harborless coast of Peru, should be safe after a short time.
From Time Magazine Archive
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On the north was an almost harborless sea.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various
Their nearest neighbors were the coast cities of Asia Minor and of the Cyclades, but the western coasts were to them harborless and strange.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
I hate this cold, bleak northern land, I fear its snow-flecked harborless strand— I fly to the south as a homing dove, Back to the land of corn I love.
From The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse by Hamlin Garland