Harwich

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhæɹɪt͡ʃ/, /ˈhæɹɪd͡ʒ/
  • Rhymes: -æɹɪdʒ

Proper noun

Harwich

  1. A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Tendring district, Essex, England (OS grid ref TM2632). [1]
    • 1951 November, K. Westcott Jones, “Parkeston Quay and the Antwerp Continental Service”, in Railway Magazine, page 760:
      In the reverse direction, creature comforts were not closely studied, and the vessel left Antwerp at 1 p.m., to arrive in Harwich at the awkward hour of 2 a.m. The boat train was waiting for the weary stream of passengers, who straggled up George Street, encumbered with luggage, or following burdened porters in the darkness.
    • 2021, A. K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches, Granta Books:
      The port of Harwich is where England bares her rump to the continent.
  2. A town on Cape Cod, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States.

References
  1. Parish map (England)
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