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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.
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v. t.
To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from the ports of another; to exclude a taxpayer from the privilege of voting.
a.
Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast.
v. t.
To forbid entrance into; to prohibit; to bar; as, to shut the ports of a country by a blockade.
v. i.
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.
n.
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 passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc.
v. t.
To pass, or to draw off, (as steam) through narrow ports, or the like, thus reducing its pressure or force by friction.
n.
A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods.
n.
Public or open sale; auction.
v. t.
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.
a.
Having no ports.
n.
An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the Cinque Ports.
n.
A strong shutter, made to fit open ports and keep out water in a storm.
n.
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.
n.
One of two small holes astern, above the gunroom ports, through which hawsers may be passed.
n.
One of the armored projections fitted with gun ports, used on modern war vessels.
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