Portsale

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    public or open sale; auction obsolete

    "Five thousand sixe hundred and two and thirtie persons were sold out-right in port-sale under the guirland"

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"Five thousand sixe hundred and two and thirtie persons were sold out-right in port-sale under the guirland"

Etymology

From port + sale. See port (“gate”).

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