port

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship

   The big ship was slowly porting

2. 2
   verb

   land at or reach a port

   The ship finally ported

3. 3
   verb

   bring to port

   the captain ported the ship at night

4. 4
   verb

   put or turn on the left side, of a ship

   port the helm

5. 5
   verb

   drink port

   We were porting all in the club after dinner

6. 6
   verb

   carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons

   port a rifle

7. 7
   verb

   carry, bear, convey, or bring

   The small canoe could be ported easily

8. 8
   noun

   A place on the coast at which ships can shelter, or dock to load and unload cargo or passengers.

   peering in maps for ports and piers and roads

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *per- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *pértusder. Proto-Italic *portus Latin portusbor. Old English port English port From Old English port, borrowed from Latin portus (“port, harbour”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pértus (“crossing”) (and thus a distant doublet of ford). The directional sense, attested since at least the 1500s, derives from ancient vessels with the steering oar on the right (see etymology of starboard), which therefore had to moor with their left sides facing the dock or wharf. Doublet of fjard, fjord, firth, ford, and…