Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb On or toward the port or left side of a ship.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Nautical, to or on the port side of a ship, as in the phrase hard aport.

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

  • adverb (Naut.) On or towards the port or left side; -- said of the helm.

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

  • adverb shipping on the left side of the boat

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Examples

  • First Missouri volunteer regiment, their guns "aport" and ready for immediate service, and at their head -- the only mounted man in the regiment, according to my recollection -- rode their Colonel, who was

    The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights

  • October 10th, 2009 at 4: 19 am PDT this info is may aport for you tomas is here look this reply

    FireAnt Just Rocks Michael Arrington 2005

  • Bon ce qui me fait penser que je vais carrement vider mon livret A a la poste ... ca fera toujours un petit aport ... oui pitit pitit c grand en fait mais pour moi non pas que j'suis depensier mais alors quand meme le peu qu'j'achete ya pas d'entree qui l'rembourse ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005

  • October 23rd, 2006 at 6: 00 pm PDT this info is may aport for you tomas is here look this reply

    FireAnt Just Rocks Michael Arrington 2005

  • And then Lovat, seeing the long swell of that grey sea, and the funnels of ships like a city suburb, put the helm hard aport, and turned the ship about, and beat against a horrible sea and wind till they got into the opposite drift.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • Before he could finish the query, she slammed the steering guide hard aport and yelled out, "Hang on!"

    The Howling Stones Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • “Hard aport!” he shouted, and instantly Shelby cut hard to the left.

    VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL PETER DAVID 1991

  • “Hard aport!” he shouted, and instantly Shelby cut hard to the left.

    VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL PETER DAVID 1991

  • “Hard aport!” he shouted, and instantly Shelby cut hard to the left.

    VENDETTA: THE GIANT NOVEL PETER DAVID 1991

  • Out in the commercial district, away from the bars and simulated strip joints and stimclubs, few lights showed below‑until a smaller, much faster skimmer shot by hard aport.

    Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988

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