Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
rudder-port . - noun Nautical, the hole in the counter of a ship through which the rudder passes; the rudder-port.
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Examples
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There's something else -- do you see the wide helm-port that the head of her helm goes through? "
The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras Jules Verne 1866
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