portsale
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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.