Gosport
English
editEtymology
editPossibly from goose or gorse, or from God's port.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editGosport
- A town and borough in Hampshire, England, next to Portsmouth (OS grid ref SZ6199).
- A community of the town of Brighton, Northumberland County, Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Clarke County, Alabama, United States.
- A town in Wayne Township, Owen County, Indiana, United States.
- A former town on Star Island, New Hampshire, United States, now part of the town of Rye, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
Noun
editGosport (plural Gosports)
- Short for Gosport tube.
- 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XVII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 154:
- Then the young man shouted into the gosport to those who had remained faithfully in the engine room feeding the furnaces […] .
- 2015, Dewey Cassell, The Incredible Herb Trimpe, page 31:
- It was all done through Gosports, which was a rubber tube and a funnel thing that looked like you measure stuff with. The ends were plugged into your helmet and you talked to each other through this rubber hose […]
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