Portmaster
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An official in charge of running a port.
"No one on the streets from dusk to dawn. Marcus had seen a fisherman at the piers shouting that the catch would be gone before he was on the water. The new Antean portmaster had him whipped in the street until there were bright tracks of raw meat along the chitined back."
Example
More examples"No one on the streets from dusk to dawn. Marcus had seen a fisherman at the piers shouting that the catch would be gone before he was on the water. The new Antean portmaster had him whipped in the street until there were bright tracks of raw meat along the chitined back."
Etymology
From port + master.
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