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portmasters

portmasters is the plural of portmaster.

Meaning of portmaster

Noun

portmaster (plural portmasters)

  1. An official in charge of running a port.
    • No one on the streets from dusk to dawn. Marcus had seen a fisherman at the piers shouting that the catch would be gone before he was on the water. The new Antean portmaster had him whipped in the street until there were bright tracks of raw meat along the chitined back.2013, Daniel Abraham, The Tyrant’s Law (The Dagger and the Coin; book three), Orbit, →ISBN, page 317

Questions about portmasters

What is portmasters the plural of?
Portmasters is the plural of portmaster.

Words near portmasters in the dictionary

  1. portmantuas
  2. portmapper
  3. portmappers
  4. Portmarnock
  5. portmaster
  6. portmasters
  7. Portmeirion
  8. portmen
  9. portmoot
  10. portmoots
  11. Portmore

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