·- Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were anciently accorded;
— viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and Sandwich; afterwards increased by the addition of Winchelsea, Rye, and some minor places.
These are five highly privileged stations, the once great emporiums of British commerce and maritime...
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·noun Five; the number five in dice or cards. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
, or port-holes. The square apertures in the sides of a ship through which to point and fire the o...
Otherwise lord warden (which see). ...
·noun A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which were regulated by the number five. ...
·adj Five-spotted. ...
A kind of fishing-net, having five entrances. ...
Large scuttles in ships' bows for the admission of air, when the other ports are down. The Americans...
Square holes cut in the sides of merchantmen for taking in ballast. But should be securely barred an...
The gun-ports at the bows and through the stern of a war-ship. ...
Those which lie up rivers; a term in contradistinction to out-ports. ...
Ports cut down on the middle gun-deck of three-deckers, to serve as door-ways for persons going in a...
See ports. ...
In frigates, stern-ports cut through the gun-room. ...
A sort of one-inch deal shutter for the upper half of those ports which have no hanging lids; the lo...
Those commercial harbours which lie on the coasts; all ports in the United Kingdom out of London. (S...
Those made in the after side-timbers, and especially in round-stern vessels. They are inconvenient f...
Certain scuttles or square holes, formerly cut through the sides of the smaller vessels of war, near...
Oblong passages leading from the nozzle-faces to the inside of the cylinder; by them the steam enter...
The ports made between the stern-timbers. ...