Half-port

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    one half of a two-part shutter used to close a porthole.

    "he heard the clanking of their capstan pawls — putting to sea with bands playing and guns grinning through yawning half-ports"

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"he heard the clanking of their capstan pawls — putting to sea with bands playing and guns grinning through yawning half-ports"

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