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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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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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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Cetology Already we are boldly launched upon the deep; but soon we shall be lost in its unshored harborless immensities.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
North of the "heel" of Italy extends an almost harborless coast, where nothing tempted the Greeks to settle.
From Early European History by Hutton Webster
It blew hard against the shore, which was as dreary and harborless as you can conceive.
From Canoeing in the wilderness by Henry David Thoreau