portsale
English edit
Etymology edit
From port + sale. See port (“gate”).
Noun edit
portsale (plural portsales)
- (obsolete) public or open sale; auction
- 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book XLI]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:
- Five thousand sixe hundred and two and thirtie persons were sold out-right in port-sale under the guirland
References edit
- “portsale”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.