Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A port at some distance from the seat of trade or from the chief customhouse: distinguished from
close port. Simmonds .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
port city orharbor which issecondary to a main port.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a subsidiary port built in deeper water than the original port (but usually farther from the center of trade)
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Examples
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There are only 20 people left in that tiny outport, which is not accessible by road, so I guess this was inevitable.
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The northern outports grew in importance ( "outport" is used for all fishing ports except St. John's).
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Talk to Newfoundlanders in what is left of the outport communities if you think this can't happen.
Matt Rigney: The BP Oil Spill: Spilt Milk Matt Rigney 2010
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The tales that emerge - despite their seemingly fantastic elements of spells and black heart books, hags, and healing charms - concern everyday affairs and reveal the intense social interdependence central to outport life.
Archive 2008-08-01 Christopher 2008
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The tales that emerge - despite their seemingly fantastic elements of spells and black heart books, hags, and healing charms - concern everyday affairs and reveal the intense social interdependence central to outport life.
Making Witches Christopher 2008
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Monolinguals only have to be minimally mobile geographically or socially to notice analogous differences: I bet you observed different social usages norms in outport Nfld, along with some of those characteristic vowels, consonants and verbal /-s/ forms you heard.
language thoughts 2008
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Rural Newfoundland is not sharing in the wealth, and hundreds of outport communities are still trying to recover from the closure of the cod fishery in 1992, in which a $700-million enterprise, plus 30,000 jobs, were wiped out overnight.
Daimnation!: The best thing that ever happened to Newfoundland (well, St. John's, anyway) 2008
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I definitely didn't visit "outport Nfld" - one needs a boat for that, and it's largely depopulated now, from what I gather - but all over Nfld, everyone is "love", "m'dear", "dearie".
language thoughts 2008
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The 611 not only gives me the option of storing up to 25 hours of HD programming on its hard drive, but there's an output on the back that allows me to outport a downcoverted signal to our DVD recorder.
IF.... and NIGHTMARE USA... and My Dish Problem Resolved 2007
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The 611 not only gives me the option of storing up to 25 hours of HD programming on its hard drive, but there's an output on the back that allows me to outport a downcoverted signal to our DVD recorder.
Archive 2007-08-19 2007
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