harborer

noun

har·​bor·​er

variants or British harbourer

-bərə(r)

plural -s

1

: one that harbors

the harborer of suspicion does not inspire faith in himself

—L. P. Stryker

2

: a person who tracks a deer to its harbor and keeps watch on it there

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