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half-ports

half-ports is the plural of half-port.

Meaning of half-port

Noun

half-port (plural half-ports)

  1. one half of a two-part shutter used to close a porthole.
    • he heard the clanking of their capstan pawls — putting to sea with bands playing and guns grinning through yawning half-ports1939, Roland Barker, The Middle Passage

Questions about half-ports

What is half-ports the plural of?
Half-ports is the plural of half-port.

Words near half-ports in the dictionary

  1. half-plane
  2. half-planes
  3. half-plate
  4. half-plates
  5. half-port
  6. half-ports
  7. half-pound
  8. half-pounder
  9. half-pounders
  10. half-price
  11. half-rate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: half-ports (page history and authors); half-port (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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