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DEMEANORS |
Ports |
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SUITCASES |
Ports |
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UNPORTUOUS |
Having no ports. |
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STROP |
Razor sharpener in use in backward ports |
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COASTING |
Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports
along a coast. |
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PORTMAN |
An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the
Cinque Ports. |
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SPONSON |
One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used
on modern war vessels. |
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DEADLIGHT |
A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out
water in a storm. |
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CAT-HOLE |
One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports,
through which hawsers may be passed. |
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SHOCK |
A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some
Baltic ports to loose goods. |
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SHUT |
To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut
the ports of a country by a blockade. |
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WIREDRAW |
To pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow
ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction. |
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PLY |
To act, go, or work diligently and steadily; especially, to
do something by repeated actions; to go back and forth; as, a steamer
plies between certain ports. |
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EMBARGO |
An edict or order of the government prohibiting the
departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its
dominions; a prohibition to sail. |
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BLOCKADE |
The shutting up of a place by troops or ships, with
the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the reception of
supplies; as, the blockade of the ports of an enemy. |
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CINQUE PORTS |
Five English ports, to which peculiar privileges were
anciently accorded; -- viz., Hastings, Romney, Hythe, Dover, and
Sandwich; afterwards inc... |
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LANYARD |
A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in
ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like;
esp., pieces pass... |
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EXCLUDE |
...exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to
exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting. ... |