outport

English

Etymology

out- +‎ port

Noun

outport (plural outports)

1. A port city or harbor which is secondary to a main port; it may be a distant one or a nearby auxiliary one.
   • 1955, Bernard Bailyn, The New England Merchants In The Seventeenth Century, Harvard University Press, page 36:

     Outport or provincial contacts like those of Cogan, Vassal, Bidgood, or Samuel Cole were exceptions. To a remarkable extent the first exchanges of goods were carried on between London and Boston. In fact, the bulk of the traffic originated in a few streets of the English capital.

2. (Newfoundland, Labrador) Any city, town, or village having a port, other than the main port of St. John's.

Related terms

• outlying
• outpost

Translations

secondary port

• Polish: awanport (pl) m, przedporcie (pl) n, przedport m

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.