unharbour

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verb

To drive (someone, or something such as hunting game) from harbour or shelter.

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Meanings

verbunharbour (third-person singular simple present unharbours, present participle unharbouring, simple past and past participle unharboured)

present singular third person unharbours · participle present unharbouring · participle past unharboured · past unharboured · alternative unharbor

  1. transitiveTo drive (someone, or something such as hunting game) from harbour or shelter.
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    [I]f the Harte ſhould rowze for feare a farre of [off], his hound (hunting vpon the winde) might carie him amiſſe, ſo that he ſhould not finde the layre. Whereby (⁊ by yͤ foyles about it) he might haue certain iudgement: and if he rowze or vnharbor the Deare ⁊ find the layre, let him not blow ouer haſtely for yͤ hoűds [hounds], but onely cry, Looke ware, looke ware, ware, ware and let him draw on with his hound vntil yͤ Deare be diſcried, ⁊ rightly marked before he hallow.

    1575, Jacques du Fouilloux, “How a Huntsman should Rowze an Hart, and Cast off His Hounds to Him”, in George Gascoigne, transl., The Noble Art of Venerie or Hunting. […], London: […] Thomas Purfoot, published 1611, →OCLC, page 107

Origin

From un- + harbour.

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APA

unharbour. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unharbour

MLA

“unharbour.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unharbour. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unharbour,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unharbour.

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