half-port

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English

Noun

half-port (plural half-ports)

  1. (nautical) one half of a two-part shutter used to close a porthole.
    • 1939, Roland Barker, The Middle Passage:
      he heard the clanking of their capstan pawls — putting to sea with bands playing and guns grinning through yawning half-ports

References

half-port”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.