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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, one of the two parts (called
upper and lower half-ports) into which is divided a shutter having a semicircular hole to fit round a gun, and serving to close a port in a ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) One half of a shutter made in two parts for closing a porthole.
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