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/pɔrt əv ˈɛntri/ Listen

noun

Port n.

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."

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.

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Etymology of 'Port of entry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman

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