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harbor : a place of security and comfort see also safe harbor vt 1 : to receive secretly and conceal (a fugitive from justice) 2 : to have (an animal) in one's keeping [may not a dog without a permit] har·bor·er n ...
safe harbor
safe harbor : something (as a statutory or regulatory provision) that provides protection (as from a penalty or liability) [had no safe harbor from prosecution] ...
longshore and harbor workers' compensation act
longshore and harbor workers' compensation act The federal act designed to provide workers' compensation benefits to employees, other than seamen, who work in maritime employment upon the navigable waters of the United States. (33 U.S.C.A. Sec. 901) Source: FindLaw ...
Harborer
One who or that which harbors...
Harbor master
An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor...
Inchmaree clause
Inchmaree clause [after Inchmaree, a British steamer whose 1884 sinking in Liverpool harbor resulted in its formulation] : a clause in a marine insurance policy that covers damage or loss caused by the negligence of a vessel's own captain or crew or by any defect in the ship's hull or machinery ...
purpresture
purpresture [Anglo-French, alteration of Old French porpresure, from porprendre to seize, occupy, enclose, from por- for + prendre to take, from Latin prehendere] : wrongful appropriation of land subject to the rights of others : an encroachment upon or enclosure of real property (as highways, sidewalks, or harbors) subject to common or public rights ...
Ballastage
A toll paid for the privilege of taking up ballast in a port or harbor...
Berthage
A place for mooring vessels in a dock or harbor...
Block
To obstruct so as to prevent passage or progress to prevent passage from through or into by obstructing the way used both of persons and things often followed by up as to block up a road or harbor to block an entrance...
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