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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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