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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An inhabitant or burgess of a port-town, or of one of the Cinque Ports.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun An inhabitant or burgess of a port, esp. of one of the Cinque Ports.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A burgess of a port, especially of one of the Cinque Ports

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