| 单词 | harbourless |
| 释义 | harbourless, a.|ˈhɑːbəlɪs|
For early forms see harbour n.1
[f. harbour n.1 + -less.]
1. Destitute of shelter, houseless, homeless.
c1200Ormin 6166 Himm þatt iss herrberrȝhelæs þe birrþ herberrȝhe findenn. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 129 Þo men þat not herberwid suche pore herberweles. 1382― Matt. xxv. 35, I was herberlesse [1526 Tindale herbroulesse (1534) herbourlesse; 1535 Coverd. harbourlesse] and ȝee..herberden me. 1470–85Malory Arthur vii. xxxii, For kyng Arthurs sake he shall not be herberoules. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 153 b, Harbourynge the harboroughles. 1609Bible (Douay) Isa. lviii. 7 The needie, and herberles bring in into thy house. a1677Manton Exp. Lord's Pr. Matt. vi. 11 We should soon be shiftless, harbourless, begging from door to door. 1829J. Donovan Catech. Counc. Trent i. iv. §11 He is born in poverty; he is born as a harbourless stranger.
†2. Of a place: That affords no shelter. Obs.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. i. (1593) 7, I entred by and by The harbroughlesse and cruell house. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. ii. Prose Addit. (1612) 334 The harbourlesse Desart.
3. Without harbours or havens for ships.
1600Holland Livy 352 (R.) The haven-lesse and harbourlesse coasts of Italie. 1795A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 107 A vast ocean, howling and harbourless. 1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art i. (1868) 16 The sea roars against your harbourless cliffs—you have to build the breakwater. |
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