harborer
harborer — noun
1. a person, group, or place that gives shelter or a hiding spot to someone or some
a person, group, or place that gives shelter or a hiding spot to someone or something — often used when the protected party is unwelcome, dangerous, or wanted by authorities.
The old farmhouse near the border became a quiet harborer of refugees during the war.
harborer of + [people in danger]
Pim was arrested as a knowing harborer of two men wanted for the bank robbery.
legal context: a knowing harborer of [wanted persons]
Damp basements are common harborers of mold, silverfish, and other small pests.
Critics called the country a harborer of corrupt officials who had fled their own courts.
Sana wrote that the human gut acts as a harborer of certain harmless bacteria.
文法句型
harborer of [noun]
用法筆記
Almost always followed by 'of + [noun]'. Object is usually something unwelcome — fugitives, pests, disease, illegal activity. Bare 'a harborer' without an 'of' phrase is rare.
常見錯誤
2. in traditional British stag-hunting, the worker whose job is to follow a deer ba
in traditional British stag-hunting, the worker whose job is to follow a deer back to its resting place in the woods and stay nearby until the hunt begins.
Before dawn, the harborer set out across the moor to locate the stag's resting place.
scene-setting: harborer + [deer] + [habitat]
Rodrigo had served as the estate's harborer for thirty hunting seasons before retiring.
role: serve as / work as the harborer
A skilled harborer reads broken twigs and hoof prints to follow a stag through the woods.
The harborer signalled to Christopher that the deer had bedded down behind the chestnut grove.
文法句型
harborer + [deer/stag]
用法筆記
Highly specialised hunting term. Distinguish from sense 1: this sense is a fixed job title in traditional stag hunting, not a general 'one who harbors something'.