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Port   /pɔrt/   Listen
noun
Port  n.  A dark red or purple astringent wine made in Portugal. It contains a large percentage of alcohol.


Port  n.  
1.
A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively. "Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads." "We are in port if we have Thee."
2.
In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages.
Free port. See under Free.
Port bar. (Naut,)
(a)
A boom. See Boom, 4, also Bar, 3.
(b)
A bar, as of sand, at the mouth of, or in, a port.
Port charges (Com.), charges, as wharfage, etc., to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor.
Port of entry, a harbor where a customhouse is established for the legal entry of merchandise.
Port toll (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringing goods into port.
Port warden, the officer in charge of a port; a harbor master.


Port  n.  
1.
A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal. (Archaic) "Him I accuse The city ports by this hath entered." "Form their ivory port the cherubim Forth issuing."
2.
(Naut.) An opening in the side of a vessel; an embrasure through which cannon may be discharged; a porthole; also, the shutters which close such an opening. "Her ports being within sixteen inches of the water."
3.
(Mach.) A passageway in a machine, through which a fluid, as steam, water, etc., may pass, as from a valve to the interior of the cylinder of a steam engine; an opening in a valve seat, or valve face.
Air port, Bridle port, etc. See under Air, Bridle, etc.
Port bar (Naut.), a bar to secure the ports of a ship in a gale.
Port lid (Naut.), a lid or hanging for closing the portholes of a vessel.
Steam port, and Exhaust port (Steam Engine), the ports of the cylinder communicating with the valve or valves, for the entrance or exit of the steam, respectively.


Port  n.  The manner in which a person bears himself; deportment; carriage; bearing; demeanor; hence, manner or style of living; as, a proud port. (archaic) "And of his port as meek as is a maid." "The necessities of pomp, grandeur, and a suitable port in the world."


Port  n.  (Naut.) The larboard or left side of a ship (looking from the stern toward the bow); as, a vessel heels to port. See Note under Larboard. Also used adjectively.


verb
Port  v. t.  (past & past part. ported; pres. part. porting)  
1.
To carry; to bear; to transport. (Obs.) "They are easily ported by boat into other shires."
2.
(Mil.) To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms. "Began to hem him round with ported spears."
Port arms, a position in the manual of arms, executed as above.


Port  v. t.  (Naut.) To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm, and used chiefly in the imperative, as a command; as, port your helm.





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"Port" Quotes from Famous Books



... as elsewhere on this coast, local traditions are, for the most part, traditions which have been literally drowned. The site of the old town, once a populous and thriving port, has almost entirely disappeared in the sea. The German Ocean has swallowed up streets, market-places, jetties, and public walks; and the merciless waters, consummating their work of devastation, closed, no longer than eighty years since, over the salt-master's cottage at Aldborough, ...
— No Name • Wilkie Collins
... importance that the Government dispatched Lieutenant Helpman in the colonial schooner Champion to procure a sufficient quantity of the coal to admit of its being practically tested as to quality, and also to ascertain what facilities existed for its conveyance to a port for shipment. A volunteer party, consisting of Lieutenant Irby, Dr. Meekleham, Messrs. Gregory and Hazlewood, accompanied Lieutenant Helpman to Champion Bay, now the site of Geraldton, and thence by land to ...
— Journals of Australian Explorations • A C and F T Gregory
... represents the delta of the Po, and it will be observed that Adria, once a great port, and from which the Adriatic was named, is now more than 20 miles from the sea. Perhaps the most remarkable case is that of the Mississippi (Fig. 36), the mouths of which project into the sea like a hand, or like the petals of a flower. ...
— The Beauties of Nature - and the Wonders of the World We Live In • Sir John Lubbock
... a huge, full bag by their side, others on the balconies have immense baskets standing, which are hardly empty before they are re- filled by eager sellers. All the ladies standing in the windows, who were disguised as Turkish ladies, or workwomen from the port, had a deep wooden trough, quite full, brought outside their windows, and into this supply dipped continually—in the street, which had been covered with soil for the sake of the horse-racing, was a crowd of people ...
— Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth • George Brandes
... he waited a long time. He heard voices but no one came in sight. Taking a deep breath, he opened the grating and got out. It was only four steps to the open port of the rocket. There was a little ramp they'd used to roll things in and Bobby's feet touched it but lightly as he jumped into the ship. He found himself in some kind of a storeroom. It would be ...
— Zero Hour • Alexander Blade


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