harborage

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“Because of their construction, sponges provide harborage for any number and variety of microbiological organisms, many of which may be pathogenic,” according to the Food and Drug Administration’s U.S.

From Washington Post • Mar. 18, 2022

While rat infestations in car engines are not rare occurrences, researchers are attempting to determine whether they are increasing in areas where rats’ usual food and harborage sites have been disrupted by pandemic distancing efforts.

From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2020

Here were no coves or harborage or shelter, only steep headlands, rockfallen reefs and crags.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

After the great defeat of Lake Regillus, the Latin cities made peace with Rome, and agreed to refuse harborage to the old king.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John

The tides here have a rise and fall of nearly twenty feet, but we found a little inlet close to a mangrove swamp that offered a good harborage for the night.

From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by Raine, William MacLeod