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Port
·noun A passageway; an opening or entrance to an inclosed place; a gate; a door; a portal.
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port
An old Anglo-Saxon word still in full use. It strictly means a place of resort for vessels, adjacent...
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men
mēn for mēne, see 2 ne.
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Men
·noun ·pl of Man.
II. Men ·pl of <<Man>>.
III. Men ·pron A man; one;
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men
them; e.g. put min up, i.e. put them up. Exm.
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men
The ship's company in general.
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Half-port
·noun One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.
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Port-royalist
·noun One of the dwellers in the Cistercian convent of Port Royal des Champs, near Paris, when it wa...
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Three-port
·add. ·adj Having three ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine i...
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Two-port
·add. ·adj Having two ports; specif.: Designating a type of two-cycle internal-combustion engine in ...
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bridle-port
A square port in the bows of a ship, for taking in mooring bridles. They are also used for guns remo...
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cinque-port
A kind of fishing-net, having five entrances.
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closed port
One interdicted.
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convenient port
A general law-term in cases of capture, within a certain latitude of discretion; a place where a ves...
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free port
Ports open to all comers free of entry-dues, as places of call, not delivery.
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helm-port
The round hole or cavity in a ship's counter, through which the head of the rudder passes into the t...
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light-port
A scuttle made for showing a light through. Also, a port in timber ships kept open until brought dee...
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port arms!
The military word of command to bring the fire-lock across the front of the body, muzzle slanting up...
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port-bars
Strong pieces of oak, furnished with two laniards, by which the ports are secured from flying open i...
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port-charges
, or harbour-dues.
Charges levied on vessels resorting to a port.
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port-fire
A stick of composition, generally burning an inch a minute, used to convey fire from the slow-match ...
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port-flange
In ship-carpentry, is a batten of wood fixed on the ship's side over a port, to prevent water or dir...
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port-glaive
A sword-bearer.
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port-last
, or portoise.
Synonymous with gunwale.
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port-mote
A court held in haven towns or ports.
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port-nails
These are classed double and single: they are similar to clamp-nails, and like them are used for fas...
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port-pendants
Ropes spliced into rings on the outside of the port-lids, and rove through leaden pipes in the ship'...
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port-piece
An ancient piece of ordnance used in our early fleets.
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port-reeve
A magistrate of certain sea-port towns in olden times.
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port-ropes
Those by which the ports are hauled up and suspended.
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port-sale
A public sale of fish on its arrival in the harbour.
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port-sashes
Half-ports fitted with glass for the admission of light into cabins.
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port-shackles
The rings to the ports.
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port-sills
In ship-building, pieces of timber put horizontally between the framing to form the top and bottom o...
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port-tackles
Those falls which haul up and suspend the lower-deck ports, so that since the admiralty order for us...
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raft-port
A large square hole, framed and cut through the buttocks of some ships, immediately under the counte...
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sally-port
An opening cut in the glacis of a place to afford free egress to the troops in case of a sortie. Als...
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sea-port
A haven near the sea, not situated up a river.
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Decoy-men
·pl of Decoy-man.
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Men-pleaser
·noun One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God.
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Remainder-men
·pl of Remainder-man.
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Trencher-men
·pl of Trencher-man.
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Wise men
Mentioned in Dan. 2:12 included three classes, (1) astrologers, (2) Chaldeans, and (3) soothsayers. ...
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abram men
Pretended mad men.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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affidavit men
Knights of the post, or false witnesses, said to attend Westminster Hall, and other courts of justic...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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dead men
A cant word among journeymen bakers, for loaves falsely charged to their masters' customers; also em...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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lambskin men
The judges: from their robes lined and bordered with ermine.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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phoenix-men
Firemen belonging to an insurance office, which gave a badge charged with a phoenix: these men were ...
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resurrection men
Persons employed by the students in anatomy to steal dead bodies out of church-yards.
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robert's men
The third old rank of the canting crew, mighty thieves, like Robin Hood.
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tally men
Brokers that let out clothes to the women of the town.
See rabbit suckers.
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government men
n.
an obsolete euphemistic namefor convicts, especially for assigned servants (q.v.).
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abraham-men
A cant term for vagabonds, who formerly begged about under pretence of having been discharged destit...
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ack-men
, or ack-pirates
Fresh-water thieves; those who steal on navigable rivers.
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barge-men
The crew of the barge, who are usually picked men. Also, the large maggots with black heads that inf...
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beach-men
A name applied to boatmen and those who land people through a heavy surf.
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carpet-men
Those officers who, without services or merit, obtain rapid promotion through political or other int...
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dead-men
The reef or gasket-ends carelessly left dangling under the yard when the sail is furled, instead of ...
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dogger-men
The seafaring fishermen belonging to doggers.
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forced men
Those serving in pirate vessels, but who refused to sign articles.
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forecastle-men
Sailors who are stationed on the forecastle, and are generally, or ought to be, prime seamen.
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foretop-men
Men stationed in the fore-top in readiness to set or take in the smaller sails, and to keep the uppe...
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good men
The designation of the able, hard-working, and willing seamen.
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green-men
The five supernumerary seamen who had not been before in the Arctic Seas, whom vessels in the whale-...
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hoppo-men
Chinese custom-house officers.
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host-men
An ancient guild or fraternity at Newcastle, to whom we are indebted for the valuable sea-coal trade...
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kroo-men
, or crew-men.
Fishmen. A tribe of African negroes inhabiting Cape Palmas, Krou-settra, and Settra...
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letter men
See king's letter men.
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liberty-men
Those on leave of absence.
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loc-men
, or loco-men.
An old term for pilots.
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material men
The persons who furnish all tackles and stores, &c., to repair or fit out ships. The high court of A...
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nipper-men
Foretop-men employed to bind the nippers about the cables and messenger, and to whom the boys return...
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quota-men
Those raised for the navy at enormous expense by Pitt's quota-bill, in 1795, under bounties of from ...
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shoute-men
The old name for the lightermen of the Thames.
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side-men
See side-boys
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top-men
Selected smart seamen stationed in the several tops, to attend the taking in or setting of the upper...
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widows' men
Imaginary sailors, formerly borne on the books as A.B.'s for wages in every ship in commission; they...
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Port-Arthur Plum
See plum, native.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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Port-Jackson Fig
n. See fig-tree.
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Port-Jackson Shark
Heterodontus phillipii,Lacep., family Cestraciontidae; called also the Shell-grinder.
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Port-Jackson Thrush
n.
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Port-Macquarie Pine
See pine.
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port egmont fowls
See egmont
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hard-a-port!
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the starboard-side of the stern-post...
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helm-port transom
The piece of timber placed across the lower counter, withinside the height of the helm-port, and bol...
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port-piece chamber
A paterero for loading a port-piece at the breech.
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Men-of-war
·pl of <<Manofwar>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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king john's men
He is one of king John's men, eight score to the hundred: a saying of a little undersized man.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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men of straw
Hired bail, so called from having straw stuck in their shoes to distinguish them.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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men of kent
Men born east of the river Medway, who are said to have met the Conqueror in a body, each carrying a...
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raree shew men
Poor Savoyards, who subsist by shewing the magic lantern and marmots about London.
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continuous service men
Those seamen who, having entered for a period, on being paid off, are permitted to have leave, and r...
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five-share men
In vessels, as whalers, where the men enter on the chances of success, &c., in shares.
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harbour-duty men
Riggers, leading men, and others, ordered to perform the dockyard or port duties, too often superann...
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king john's men
The Adullamites of the navy.
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king's letter men
An extinct class of officers, of similar rank with midshipmen. The royal letter was a kind of promis...
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main-yard men
Those in the doctor's list.
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mast-head men
The men stationed aloft to keep a look-out.
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small-arm men
Those of the crew selected and trained to the use of small-arms. When they have effected their board...
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bar of a port
or bar of a harbour
An accumulated shoal or bank of sand, shingle, gravel, or other uliginous subs...
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captain of the port
The captain of the port is probably better explained by referring to that situation at Gibraltar. He...
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pushing for a port
Carrying all sail to arrive quickly.
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put into port, to
To enter an intermediate or any port in the course of a voyage, usually from stress of weather.
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riding a port-last
With lower yards on the gunwales.
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running-down the port
A method practised in the ruder state of navigation, when the longitude was very doubtful, by sailin...
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wise men of gotham
Gotham is a village in Nottinghamshire; its magistrates are said to have attempted to hedge in a cuc...
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command-of-mind men
Steady officers, who command coolly.
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merry men of may
Dangerous currents formed by the ebb-tides.
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turn over men, to
To discharge them out of one ship into another.
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Port of London Authority's Warehouses
At the northern boundary of Portsoken Ward and extending into Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.O. Directo...
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any port in a storm
signifies contentment with whatever may betide.
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sole of a gun-port
The lower part of it, more properly called port-sill.
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Star Of The Wise Men
[Magi]
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