half-port

English

Noun

half-port (plural half-ports)

1. (nautical) one half of a two-part shutter used to close a porthole.
   • 1939, Roland Barker, The Middle Passage:

     he heard the clanking of their capstan pawls — putting to sea with bands playing and guns grinning through yawning half-ports

References

“half-port”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.