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Definition of Port of call
1. Noun. Any port where a ship stops except its home port.
Definition of Port of call
1. Noun. (nautical) any port (except its home port) being visited by a ship, especially to load or unload cargo or passengers or to take on supplies ¹
2. Noun. (figuratively) A place visited. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Port Of Call
Literary usage of Port of call
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Compendium of the Law of Merchant Shipping: With an Appendix Containing by Frederic Philip Maude, Charles Edward Pollock, Gainsford Bruce (1881)
"It is sometimes provided that the orders shall be given within a specified time
after the arrival of the ship at the port of call; but, in the absence of ..."
2. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"Import Duty shall be payable as follows: on cargo from abroad for (a) a Treaty
Port, at destination Treaty Port; (b) a Port of Call, at Port of entry from ..."
3. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"Import Duty shall be payable as follows : on cargo from abroad for (a) a Treaty
Port, at destination Treaty Port; (b) a Port of Call, ..."
4. Kino's Historical Memoir of Pimería Alta: A Contemporary Account of the by Eusebio Francisco Kino, Herbert Eugene Bolton (1919)
"... which is that of El Tison, and by the land route to California, will be able
to provide a port of call to the China ship,1*0 and trade with her, ..."
5. The Judicial Dictionary, of Words and Phrases Judicially Interpreted, to by Frederick Stroud (1903)
"the purposes of business,— generally, to take in or unload Cargo, or to receive
orders. It must mean that the vessel may stop at the Port of Call for a time ..."
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