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/pɔrt əv ˈɛntri/ Listen

noun

Port n.

A place where ships may ride secure from storms; a sheltered inlet, bay, or cove; a harbor; a haven. Used also figuratively. "Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads." "We are in port if we have Thee."

In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages.

Free port. See under Free.

Port bar. (Naut,)

(a)

A boom. See Boom, 4, also Bar, 3.

(b)

A bar, as of sand, at the mouth of, or in, a port.

Port charges (Com.), charges, as wharfage, etc., to which a ship or its cargo is subjected in a harbor.

Port of entry, a harbor where a customhouse is established for the legal entry of merchandise.

Port toll (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringing goods into port.

Port warden, the officer in charge of a port; a harbor master.

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Etymology of 'Port of entry'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Port of entry" Quotes from Famous Books

... into the cause of your living before this port without communicating your intention. I shall by this message inform you, that the port of Galvezton belongs to and is in the possession of the republic of Texas, and was made a port of entry the 9th October last. And whereas the supreme congress of said republic have thought proper to appoint me as governor of this place, in consequence of which, if you have any demands on said government, or persons belonging to or residing in the same, ...

— The Pirates Own Book • Charles Ellms

... stopped abruptly, and with its last note he found himself alone, for the youths about him had precipitated themselves into the room to secure their partners for the next cotillon. The enterprising Hamp came in through the window, by which port of entry the orchestra departed in search of the reviving pail on ...

— A Tar-Heel Baron • Mabell Shippie Clarke Pelton