harborough
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A local government district in Leicestershire, England, formed in 1974, with its headquarters in Market Harborough (after which it was named)
Example Sentences
- "[…] having upon sea borde greate sandes, which do make the harborough good, and bytwene the londing place and the towne is, at the leste, 40 score tayloures yardes, …"
- "[T]here aboutes dwelt greate multitudes of people half wilde, hiding thẽſelues in caues of the grounde, of ſmall ſtature, and very fearefull, for as ſoone as they ſawe them they fled into their holes, and that there was a great riuer and very good harborough."
- "For all the sea coastes are ful of clear and glistering stones, & alabaster, and therefore it is full of good havens and harboroughs for ships."